On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 25.1.2012, at 5.22, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > > > I have a question concerning UIDs. How persistant are they? > > With Dovecot persistent enough. But as Michael said, check UIDVALIDITY. > > > I am thinking about building some form of webmail specialized for some > > specific business purpose and I am thinking of building a sort of cache > in > > a DB by storing the email addr, date, subject and UID for quick lookups > and > > search of correspondance. > > Dovecot should already have such cache. If there are problems with that, I > think it would be better to fix it on Dovecot's side rather than adding a > second cache. >
Very true. Has there been many search/index improvements since 1.0.9? I read thru the release notes but nothing jumped out at me. > > > I am doing this because I am having issue with multiple people searching > > thru email folders that have 100k+ emails (which is another problem in > > itself, searches don't seem to scale well when folder goes above 60k > > emails). > > Maybe enable fts-solr or fts-lucene? (Both work much better in v2.1.) > I was under the impression that lucene was for full-text search. I'm just doing simple from/to field searches. I will get a few numbers together about folder_size --> search time and I will post them tonight. -jd