The folder search implementation in the custom query parser is always rooted (both because that happened to be much easier to do in that design, and because I agree with you that rooted searches seem preferable most of the time).  What arguments do people have for or against rooted folder searches?<div>
<br></div><div>On a similar note, another difference is that cworth&#39;s folder search is recursive (which, I suppose, follows from being non-rooted).  That is, a search for &quot;folder:foo&quot; will find any message in any folder under foo.  The folder search I posted is non-recursive.  Thus, &quot;folder:foo&quot; specifically searches the foo maildir (that is, any mail under foo, foo/new, or foo/cur).  I consider different folders to be, well, different, regardless of nesting, but what are other people&#39;s thoughts?<br>
<br><div>On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Rob Browning <span>&lt;<a href="mailto:rlb@defaultvalue.org">rlb@defaultvalue.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<blockquote>
<div>I&#39;d be tempted to consider making folder: searches rooted by default.  I</div>
wonder how often people really want &quot;all folders named misc&quot;?</blockquote></div></div>