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Re: variables: dynamic match patterns

2003-04-14 13:42:55

Hi Kjetil,

--On Monday, April 14, 2003 10:19 PM +0200 Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho(_at_)ifi(_dot_)uio(_dot_)no> wrote:

|>   Hm.  That's a reasonable offer, Kjetil, but I'd rather eat the
|>   complexity as an implementor than to place it on the users and
|>   client writers by making this be an implementation-specific
|>   difference.
|
| well, that is one side of it.  the other side is that of the server
| administrators.  if you must support multipass searches in body, this
| may be a performance hit for servers.  the administrator has few
| options: pray that people won't use it too often, buy more hardware
| (RAM!), or turn off the body extension altogether.

Sadly we have already seen multiple instances of ISPs disabling the IMAP SEARCH command because they feel that is too 'expensive' CPU-wise and adversely effects performance. I would guess the same philosophy will be applied to body searches in sieve.

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Cyrus Daboo