[Imap-protocol] IMAP features: which clients use them?

[Brendan Cully]

On Tuesday, 20 March 2007 at 12:48, Bill Janssen wrote:
> I'm intrigued by the charts of email client capabilities on Wikipedia
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients).  You'll
> notice that almost all the clients claim to support IMAP4 (even the
> ones which don't support STARTTLS, like Outlook :-).
> 
> There's a column in the Wikipedia chart labelled "Database, folders,
> and customization" which purports to show which clients use IMAP
> search.  I'm interested in knowing more about a fairly narrow topic:
> which clients use IMAP search, and how they use it.  Is there such a
> chart?  Or listing?  I'd be happy to put one together if folks want to
> mail me contributions.

mutt uses search for header, text and body, if the user doesn't use
regular expressions for those search components.