JavaMail search by ReceivedDate, doesn't work down to the second?

Question

In IMAP, message numbering is based on when a message is placed into a folder (i.e. first message in the folder is 1, second message in is 2, etc.). However, this ordering h

Answer 1

According to JM developer Bill Shannon, this is a limitation of the IMAP protocol:

from    Bill Shannon 
to  Jonathan Hanson 
cc  javamail_ww@oracle.com
date    Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:55 AM
subject Re: Bug with searching by ReceivedDateTerms
mailed-by   oracle.com
    Important mainly because of your interaction with messages in the conversation.

hide details 11:55 AM (16 minutes ago)

The searching is being done by the IMAP server, and you're running into a limitation of the IMAP protocol.