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.
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
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.
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.
*** Bug 326047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Akonadi just got search support for various backends including IMAP.
Akonadi and kmail2 just got search support for various backends including IMAP. Fixed in 4.13.
Thanks! That's great!
(In reply to comment #7) > Thanks! +1 >That's great! indeed !
Really? I can't find it anywhere in kmail 5.0.2
How can I use it in Version 5.2.3? Advanced search does not seem to work at all here.
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.