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.
--
Cyrus Daboo