Hi there,
I'm looking into improving IMAP search support for the Gnus Emacs mail
client, and trying to add the ability to search non-ascii characters. So
far as I know, I start this invocation with something like:
. UID SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 TEXT {NNN}
Where NNN is the number of bytes in my search string. Dovecot then
responds with:
+ OK
So... what do I do then? I don't actually know what the next statement
is, to provide the actual search string itself. Googling has proved
unhelpful, as most of the examples online don't actually show this "+
OK" response. Can someone just briefly outline what's meant to happen
next? I've tried including the search string immediately after the
byte-size, separated by various combinations of \n\r, but that always
gives me a "Missing LF after literal size" error.
I'm using the Archlinux dovecot package, which reports version 2.2.13-1.
Thanks!
Eric
Quoting Eric Abrahamsen <eric at ericabrahamsen.net>:> Hi there, > > I'm looking into improving IMAP search support for the Gnus Emacs mail > client, and trying to add the ability to search non-ascii characters. So > far as I know, I start this invocation with something like: > > . UID SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 TEXT {NNN} > > Where NNN is the number of bytes in my search string. Dovecot then > responds with: > > + OK > > So... what do I do then? I don't actually know what the next statement > is, to provide the actual search string itself. Googling has proved > unhelpful, as most of the examples online don't actually show this "+ > OK" response. Can someone just briefly outline what's meant to happen > next? I've tried including the search string immediately after the > byte-size, separated by various combinations of \n\r, but that always > gives me a "Missing LF after literal size" error.Your example, assuming your search text is "a?b": . UID SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 TEXT {4} +OK a?b[CRLF] * SEARCH XXX . OK Literal length is the number of octets in the string - not the number of characters - so not sure if that was tripping you up. michael
Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at curecanti.org> writes:> Quoting Eric Abrahamsen <eric at ericabrahamsen.net>: > >> Hi there, >> >> I'm looking into improving IMAP search support for the Gnus Emacs mail >> client, and trying to add the ability to search non-ascii characters. So >> far as I know, I start this invocation with something like: >> >> . UID SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 TEXT {NNN} >> >> Where NNN is the number of bytes in my search string. Dovecot then >> responds with: >> >> + OK >> >> So... what do I do then? I don't actually know what the next statement >> is, to provide the actual search string itself. Googling has proved >> unhelpful, as most of the examples online don't actually show this "+ >> OK" response. Can someone just briefly outline what's meant to happen >> next? I've tried including the search string immediately after the >> byte-size, separated by various combinations of \n\r, but that always >> gives me a "Missing LF after literal size" error. > > Your example, assuming your search text is "a?b": > > . UID SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 TEXT {4} > +OK > a?b[CRLF] > * SEARCH XXX > . OK > > Literal length is the number of octets in the string - not the number > of characters - so not sure if that was tripping you up.Hi Michael, Well that's embarrassing, I could have sworn that was the first thing I tried. I knew about the octets, and had tried inputting a\303\251b as the search string, but was sure I'd also tried the plain old search string. Thanks! While I've got you here, I hope you'll answer one more question: what's the format for searching multiple terms with non-ascii strings? Is it possible in one run to find a utf-8 encoded subject, and a utf-8 encoded body? Thanks again, Eric