[Alpine-info] Sudenly, a rule doesn't work.

[damion.yates at gmail.com]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:


> I have been, for years, using a select messages rule in some accounts. 

> I do, once inside the folder:


[..snipped..]


> And suddenly, today it fails:

>

>      [full text search not supported]

>

> Is there something I can do?

>

> It is a gmx.es account.


There have been follow-ups with work-arounds.  I wanted to comment on 
the sudden change.

I assume they've switched their IMAP serving infra and sadly this will 
now always be slow unless they change back or can configure full text 
search in their new infrastructure.

If you happened to be keeping the alpine debug logs it might show the 
point where the server ident changed.

I would contact them as it's possible it's just a tick box on whatever 
service they're using.  They might be using an off the shelf imap daemon 
on their own servers, or might be white labelling a 3rd party service 
like MS.

It's not impossible it was an oversight.  OTOH your own sync so a local 
more capable imap server if you are okay constantly running one, will 
undoubatbly be fast and useful in its own ways.

  Best wishes,

  - Damion