On 25.1.2012, at 15.34, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: >>> 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.
Disk I/O usage is the same probably, CPU usage is less in newer versions. >>> 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. In v2.1 from/to fields are also searched via FTS.