[Alpine-info] Search problem

[Olaf Skibbe via Alpine-info]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 at 09:06, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


> On Sun, 28 Jul 2024, Olaf Skibbe wrote:

>

>> It gets weirder:

>> 

>> I just received my mail to the list. It appeared in the INBOX as new. 

>> Without opening it, I did

>> 

>> ; T F skibbe

>> 

>> and the message was selected.

>> [...]

>

> It seems that your messages are selected if they are unseen. Try to see if 

> flagging all messages "Not New" (; a a * ! N) and then doing the search 

> produces the correct results.


No, this does not change anything.


> Another suggestion. Try to see if searching headers produces the result. In 

> this case try

>

> ; t h From <search pattern>


Again, same result.

I took another look at the Thunderbird search: In the search dialog
there is the option "Run search on server". Here, I get the same
result: Search for e.g. "From contains <pattern>" does not find the
messages when the search is run on the server, and finds messages when
the option is off. In other words: same or similar behavior as alpine.


>From that I think it is very likely that the problem is at

Strato.

For the time being, I will use the setting with /loser. This seems to
work sufficiently fast, at least for an temporary solution

Eduardo, thanks very much for your patient support!

Cheers,
Olaf