Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> writes: Hi Timo,
> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 21:09 +0200, Tassilo Horn wrote: >> I use a local dovecot server which is synchronized with my two imap >> accounts using OfflineIMAP. This works very nice and is highly >> usable. >> >> But one thing I'd like to improve is the slow IMAP search. When I >> search for a string in the subjects of all messages in a mailbox >> using some mail client, dovecot seems to grep all the messages in >> there. > > Subject (or any other header) search should be fast, at least after > the first one. The subjects should then (if not before) be stored in > dovecot.index.cache file, and the search should be over in less than a > second even with tens of thousands of messages. If this isn't > happening with you, something's wrong. Oh, you proved me wrong. I tried on a folder with about 20.000 messages and it took about 2 seconds. So searching for subject is reasonably fast. > What Dovecot version are you using? 1.1.13 > For message body indexing there are a couple of choices: > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS Great, that's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot! Tassilo -- Chuck Norris actually built the stairway to heaven.