Bug 223813

Summary:	No support for IMAP searching
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Thomas McGuire <mcguire>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	butirsky, dschridde+kde, erenoglu, erwin.vandevelde, gmoutso, kdebugs, kdenis, kmm, lacsilva, maxi, till2.schaefer
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	akonadi-ports-regression
Version:	1.99.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	4.13.0
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	223438, 277366

Description Thomas McGuire 2010-01-22 17:49:25 UTC

KMail can't do IMAP searches anymore.
Currently, the searches use Akonadi, which in turn uses Nepomuk to search all messages that are indexed by Nepomuk.

That of course doesn't include messages on the IMAP server, and also all messages that are not locally cached.

In any case, searches on the IMAP server should be done with the special IMAP command for it.

Comment 1 Erwin Van de Velde 2013-02-13 10:22:31 UTC

If one wants to convice Exchange users to use IMAP and switch to kontact as client, this is one of the more important features in my opinion. It would be great to have

Comment 2 Emre 2013-06-05 22:40:08 UTC

I confirm this bug. I can't search using "Advanced Search" (I mean Find Messages" dialog box. My mailbox is on MS Exchange.
Version 4.10.3.

Comment 3 Till Schäfer 2013-07-29 14:27:23 UTC

i can confirm this bug. Using KDE 4.10.5 on gentoo. 

Advanced Search does only return some messages (and not all messages wich contain the keyword), and is very unreliable. The above mentioned cache behaviour might be an explanation for this.

Comment 4 Daniel Vrátil 2013-10-15 12:33:12 UTC

*** Bug 326047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Luis Silva 2014-02-12 00:38:42 UTC

Akonadi just got search support for various backends including IMAP.

Comment 6 Luis Silva 2014-02-12 00:39:52 UTC

Akonadi and kmail2 just got search support for various backends including IMAP. Fixed in 4.13.

Comment 7 Dennis Schridde 2014-02-12 10:05:09 UTC

Thanks! That's great!

Comment 8 Till Schäfer 2014-02-12 12:29:46 UTC

(In reply to comment #7)
> Thanks! 
+1
>That's great!
indeed !

Comment 9 tony den haan 2016-02-26 18:47:25 UTC

Really? I can't find it anywhere in kmail 5.0.2

Comment 10 George Moutsopoulos 2017-01-16 12:45:04 UTC

How can I use it in Version 5.2.3? Advanced search does not seem to work at all here.

Comment 11 Denis Kurz 2017-01-16 17:33:58 UTC

This bug has long been fixed. There are some new search-related bugs, but those probably have nothing to do withthis one.

To find recent search-related bugs, please search for "component:search :kmail2" in Bugzilla. If your Bug is not there, please open a new one.