[MlMt] Searching for text of URL links

John Cooper mailmate at coopercontent.com
Fri Mar 15 17:55:02 EDT 2019


Chris Newman wrote (at 14:05 on 15 Mar 2019):

> The IMAP standard requires implementation of a pure substring search, 
> but in practice most search indexing software toolkits only do 
> word-based search and don't support efficient substring search (most 
> can do reasonably efficient prefix search but not efficient suffix 
> search). So particularly for body searches, you need to search for a 
> substring that counts as a word to whatever indexing software is used 
> on the IMAP server you're using.

Doesn't MailMate search the local repository instead of the IMAP server? 
I would think that if you're searching local files, you should be able 
to use any search toolkit you like.


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