imap: remove non-UID SEARCH for now

Supporting MSNs in long-lived connections beyond the lifetime of
a single request/response cycle is not scalable to a C10K
scenario.  It's probably not needed, since most clients seem to
use UIDs.

A somewhat efficient implementation I can come up uses
pack("S*" ...) (AKA "uint16_t mapping[50000]") has an overhead
of 100K per-client socket on a mailbox with 50K messages.  The
100K is a contiguous scalar, so it could be swapped out for
idle clients on most architectures if THP is disabled.

An alternative could be to use a tempfile as an allocator
partitioned into 100K chunks (or SQLite); but I'll only do that
if somebody presents a compelling case to support MSN SEARCH.

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