[plug] client-server e-mail query system?

[Ryan]

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 23:47, Denis Brown wrote:
> Dear PLUG list members,
> 
> Maybe I'm not getting my terminology correct or my search terms, or maybe
> this hasn't been done before???
> 
> I'd like to search for, retrieve and display only selected e-mails from a
> large mail spool rather than use a more conventional IMAP+browser or
> MTA+text client like pine, elm, ...   I'd like to do this over a low
> bandwidth link.   Consider this example:
> 
> I have thousands of e-mails on a server.   I'm at a remote site, perhaps
> with a dial-up connection (low bandwidth) and I want to access the one or
> two e-mails from Joe Bloggs, relating to a widget order, received some
> time in 2002.   With a POP style solution employing a client like Pegasus
> or Eudora, or... I'll be sitting there for hours downloading the stored
> mail to my local client, in order to do the search and display locally.
> No thanks.

I use Horde IMP3 a lot - a LAMP app.

Not sure how well this goes with 1000+ emails, but for several hundred
it is great.  It will only display x number of emails per page depending
how you set it up, so there won't be any large downloading.  With 4-500
emails on a Celery 333 there is hardly a wait to narrow it down to a
specific sender.

It has a search option which allows searching by any of the following:

From, To, CC, Subject, Received On/Before/After, Message Flags, Folder.

I have it setup on a dedicated machine and it connects to our main IMAP
server (just simple uw-imapd).

Ryan