[dev-neuridia] IMAP4, search, and CPU usage

[Charles A. Landemaine]

Searching emails on an email server is a very resource-intensive and
lengthy procedure. AOL even disables the search feature for message
bodies:

"Now the bad: the search feature is nowhere as powerful as GMail's.
The web based "search" function apparently works merely on the sender
or subject lines, and when you attempt to use the search function of
your email client over IMAP and select the search to include the
message bodies as well -which is a cpu-intensive operation on the
imap4 server, if implemented- you get the message "Command 'SEARCH'
not supported", which clearly shows that AOL has decided not to enable
it, or doesn't have it implemented on their servers".

http://tinyurl.com/2448kh

It's clearly a design failure. I wouldn't imagine a forum application
that doesn't allow to search inside message threads. Same for emails
:)

-- 
Charles A. Landemaine.