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sangam100
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Posted: 01 April 2009 at 5:27am | IP Logged Quote sangam100
Hi all,
This query is more related to development- adding simple mail search feature in webmaillite.

I have seen in the webmail pro online demo that it supports searching mail. And I also came to know that webmail pro supports database seach [mails that are saved in database are searched, perhaps paging is also done by retrieving data from database].

The search feature is not included in webmail lite. And I have a need of doing this. Actually I would like to search emails in the webmail lite version. But I haven't seen the beginning point yet. Could anyone spread the idea?

I guess we would search the file system for this, if mails are saved in file system. Does webmail lite save it to the file system or directly displays from the pop server?

Could we simply pass search query and display the resultant mails in the message list page?

Any response is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
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Igor
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Posted: 01 April 2009 at 5:48am | IP Logged Quote Igor
WebMail Lite works with POP3 server directly, it doesn't download mails to file system or database completely, you can just fetch them one by one, they are saved to some temporary location and parsed for displaying and providing downloadable attachments.

POP3 protocol itself doesn't have any support for message search, so this can not be easily implemented in WebMail Lite. The only viable route is to fetch all the messages from server and search through them. This can be a problem when searching through thousands of mail messages, and most likely you will need to use a database to search using cached data. Even if you manage to develop all the above with all the pitfalls taken care of, we believe purchasing WebMail Pro will be easier and cheaper in the end.

Regards,
Igor
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