Search emails not displayed?

[waynesworld937]

I often need to find an email older than those shown in Aquamail. How do I tell aquamail to search an account (or all)  for emails that have not downloaded?

I can keep scrolling and waiting for 'Loading'but this could take a very long time.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Searching from a particular folder's message list will (for IMAP / Exchange accounts) hit the server for old messages, after doing a local (on-device) search.

It pulls them in a limited number at a time, so yes, you will need to keep pressing "Search for next NNN" at the bottom.

This will only search that particular folder.

Searching from the account list or smart folder only looks in already loaded messages (but searches them all at once).

[waynesworld937]

I've noticed that it loads older messages in random order and not the youngest first. I wonder if this is perhaps because they are stored out of order on the server? And this might be because of the order they were moved to the server (ie.Not uploaded in chronological order)

Do imap/exhange servers allow to reorder them?

[Kostya Vasilyev]

The order in IMAP is "as filed by the server", normally same as "received date/time", but moving messages (between folders) or uploading old messages does file them as "newest". So yes, you're absolutely right.