On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 12:04 -0500, Adam Seering wrote: > Hi all, > When I try to search for a string in the full text of a message, > the search takes a very long time. I haven't investigated closely, > but based on how much disk activity I'm seeing, it looks like it's > trying to open and scan every message in the mailbox in question. > (Which, for me in some cases, is many GB's.) > > I've poked around on the Internet; I get the impression that > Evolution is supposed to have (used to have?) some sort of full-text > indexing for e-mails. I'm wondering if that's still the case? If so, > is there anything obvious I could do to debug why my searches are > taking so long?
You don't say what sort of mail account it is (or indeed what version of Evo), but if they are local folders (i.e. for a POP account), then right-click on the folder select Properties and make sure "Index message body data" is checked. For an IMAP account, then I think the searching capabilities depend the particular IMAP server and how it has indexed the messages. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
