From: Mark Crispin Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine Subject: Re: Pine won't search my IMAP mail. Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 00:20:46 -0800 Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing Lines: 16 Sender: mrc@ndcms.cac.washington.edu Message-ID: References: <31229889.0302082334.4f6c03e7@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nntp4.u.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp6.u.washington.edu 1044778840 46430 (None) 140.142.17.38 X-Complaints-To: help@cac.washington.edu In-Reply-To: <31229889.0302082334.4f6c03e7@posting.google.com> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Christian Dysthe wrote: > I have all my mail stored on a remote IMAP server (I beleive it's a > Courier server). Pine work fine with it except for the fact that I am > not able to search all my mail for mssages that contains a certain > word. I get an error message saying "Scan not valid on this server". You are trying to do a multi-mailbox search, which uses an IMAP extension (SCAN) that is not supported by the Courier server. SCAN is supported by the UW server. A single mailbox search should work. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.