I recently tried to search for some emails that were about 3 months old. This search was started in the inbox of my main account. By the way, if it helps, My account is IMAP, set up to keep 500 on the aquamail client, and 25 loaded in full. The account has about 18500 in it on the server. The search box comes up initially with the message 'search all loaded'; it returns matches that went back about a month, to 6 July. The search box then says 'global search', so I assumed it should have searched on the server after it had searched 'all loaded'. In any case I do not know in advance how far back in time the 'loaded' 500 takes me.
However, it did not find the wanted item, one that dates from May this year.
I repeated the search on my iPhone 4s that uses the default mail client, also on IMAP, and the wanted item was found.
I also find it with Thunderbird on my main PC.
The ui of aquamail shows me '1574/18452' next to the inbox, suggesting I THINK that about 8% of my messages are unread. Mostly old ones from a year or two ago when I was away from home.
Today, some 3 days later, if I repeat the search, the earliest match on that search is for 10 July, I.e. the match from 6 July is no longer found.
Can you advise me how to ensure that I can search the server, after a search of already-loaded items is exhausted. I suspect the search is stopping at the 500 item mark.
The words 'global search' led me to suppose that the server should be searched.
My android device runs android 4.3 on a Google nexus 10 tablet.
Either the product is working incorrectly, or it is working correctly, but the process to do a full search is less than clear in the user interface.
Thanks,
Dave Beakhust
