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type: enhancement
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- Kotlin
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Description
K-9 Mail's search capability is rather limited and we want to change that. The goal of this issue is to track the features we want to have.
- Improved search UI that allows…
- entering search terms for specific properties on a message (subject, recipient, sender, body, etc).
- selecting specific folders (or all folders) of one or more accounts.
- Support full text search via IMAP #699
- Support server-side search with multiple folders #649
- Caching remote search results so a search can be repeated offline
- Enable the ability to search on server by default (we might still make it an additional button click to extend the local search to the server)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the checklist in this issue and the related issues #699 and #649, since no source files, tests, or entry points are identified. The scope needs to be narrowed to a specific search feature before implementation; done should be defined for that selected item, including its behavior and validation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100