Searching several mailboxes is not shopping several vendors.

Answer Searching several mailboxes is not shopping several vendors. RFC 7377 describes IMAP multimailbox search. The document is titled IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension. A search across folders is not a comparison of solo sellers. That is a fact about mail software or about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in.

The note that started this: RFC 7377, IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension, RFC 7377.

A solo ad is one rented letter to someone else's list. When you buy solo ads, you are choosing a seller and a list, not running a search across folders you already hold. The document describes a way for IMAP to search more than one mailbox. The hits are messages already in those mailboxes. They are not quotes from vendors you have not spoken to. A folder that contains old mail is an archive. An archive is not a marketplace. Ask each seller about that seller's list, and do not pretend a search did the asking.

The page is about mail software. It does not rank sellers, it does not price a send, and it does not prove a stranger opted in. A seller who says a multimailbox search proves list quality is pointing at the wrong tool. The tool looks through folders. Your purchase looks through an order. You still name the list, the sending domain, and the refund line. A protocol feature is not that letter, and it is not permission to shop by searching your own mail.

What does RFC 7377 let software search?

RFC 7377 describes IMAP multimailbox search. A search across folders is not a comparison of solo sellers. Searching several mailboxes is not shopping several vendors.

In plain words, the extension lets a search cover more than one mailbox instead of one folder at a time. That is useful to a person cleaning up their own mail. It is useless as a way to compare solo sellers, because the sellers are not folders in your account. A hit means a message was already there and matched the search. It does not mean a vendor is careful, and it does not mean a stranger asked for your offer. This note will not invent commands or options. The fact you need is the contrast. Folders are not vendors.

Buyers get hurt when they treat their own archive as a market. They search, they see mail they already received, and they feel they compared sources. They compared copies they already had. Sellers get hurt when they claim the extension as proof their list is better than another list. The extension does not know either list. It will not name a winner. If you want a comparison, ask each seller for the list, the domain, and the refund line, and read those answers side by side. A search cannot sit in for that conversation.

• A search hit is a message already in a mailbox.
• The seller does not call that hit a vendor comparison.
• The buyer does not shop lists by searching personal folders.
• The order names the list, the sending domain, and the refund line.

Is a multimailbox search a solo ad price or a rank?

No. That is a fact about mail software or about an old specification. It is not a solo ad price, a rank, or proof that a stranger opted in.

A price is an agreement for one rented send. RFC 7377 does not print an agreement, and this note will not invent one. A rank would order sellers. A search across folders does not order them. It can only return mail the mailboxes already stored. Stored mail is not opt-in for a future solo, and it is not a grade. If a pitch says the search extension shows how clean the list is, the pitch has left the document. The document is titled as a search extension. Clean, as a sales word, is not in that title. Read the title, then go ask about the list.

What should the order name before you pay?

A buyer still has to name the list, the sending domain, and the refund line on the order. A folder search does not name them.

Name the list so you know whose readers are supposed to get the letter. Name the sending domain so the domain on the send is the one you agreed. Name the refund line so a bad send has a written result that is not a story about search. The specification will not shop for you, and it will not fill the blanks. Several mailboxes searched together are still your mailboxes, or somebody else's folders, not a counter of vendors.

Sellers who offer a search in place of an answer are stalling. Buyers who accept the stall are about to pay without a list name. Check solo ad pricing only after the list and the domain are written down. Searching several mailboxes is not shopping several vendors. The price, whatever you agree, is for a letter. It is not for a search, and it is not proof anyone opted in.