I am using kubuntu 12.04 with kde 4.8.4.

I have a google mail account set to imap and accessing it with kmail2.

So far, so good. But I cannot get the search function to do anything. Setting up the search and then pressing the search button is a nop.

The search works fine for the local mail folders.

Is there anything I have to setup to be able to do a search on google mail imap folders ? If this works, will the search be done on the server side, meaning using the google search engine to find the mails ?

Are you running in online mode IMAP or disconnected IMAP (the latter can be checked in the account preferences - see if "Enable disconnected mode" is ticked)?

I am using the disconnected mode.

Check if you have enabled email indexing (System Settings > Desktop Search). Can you also right click on the IMAP folders and see whether full text indexing is enabled?

I have email indexing enabled and all the folders have the full test indexing enabled as well.

I just do not get any search results.

The email indexing would work on the local copies processed by nepomuk I guess. Isn't there any way to issue a search on the server ?

I think that all searches are performed locally, but I just tested on my inbox (disconnected IMAP) and it works. Do you have any errors showing up in ~/.xsession-errors when you search?

No, no errors there.

But whats weird is that now it starts to work, ... somehow.

I now get results, not very comprehensive ones (meaning it leaves a lot missing), but at least it does something. Maybe it still is creating the index. Also it completely ignores the folder structure, always searching through all mails, regardless if I check 'include subfolders' or not.

But well, thanks anyway for your help. I will wait a bit for the index to be built and if the behaviour is still the same I guess I will stick to the google webgui search facility.

Thanks