Re: Fast searching from android device with Dovecot/Maildir

[John Gateley via dovecot]

Thank you Frank-Ulrich, this looks perfect.

John

On 12/2/19 7:25 PM, Frank-Ulrich Sommer via dovecot wrote:
I dont't know the capabilities of gmail, but IMAP supports server side 
search which is quite fast if the Solr full text search plugin for 
dovecot is used (wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Solr). For debian 
"dovecot-solr" can be used.


For Android K9-Mail does not really support server side search, 
Aquamail does and for other mail clients I don't know.


Am 1. Dezember 2019 22:18:37 MEZ schrieb John Gateley via dovecot 
:


Hello,

I am using dovecot as an imap server, mail is stored in mail directories.
Configuration is below.

One mail directory has about 14 Gb of mail in the inbox and .Sent
directories.

Searching from an Android phone with gmail is slow or doesn't work (it
times out).

Is there a configuration for Dovecot that can improve this? A better
e-mail client
for Android?

Thanks,

John

Re: Fast searching from android device with Dovecot/Maildir

[Frank-Ulrich Sommer via dovecot]

I dont't know the capabilities of gmail, but IMAP supports server side search 
which is quite fast if the Solr full text search plugin for dovecot is used 
(wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Solr). For debian "dovecot-solr" can be used.

For Android K9-Mail does not really support server side search, Aquamail does 
and for other mail clients I don't know.

Am 1. Dezember 2019 22:18:37 MEZ schrieb John Gateley via dovecot 
:
>Hello,
>
>I am using dovecot as an imap server, mail is stored in mail
>directories.
>Configuration is below.
>
>One mail directory has about 14 Gb of mail in the inbox and .Sent 
>directories.
>
>Searching from an Android phone with gmail is slow or doesn't work (it 
>times out).
>
>Is there a configuration for Dovecot that can improve this? A better 
>e-mail client
>for Android?
>
>Thanks,
>
>John
>
>
>root@giraffe:~# dovecot --version
>2.2.27 (c0f36b0)
>root@giraffe:~# doveconf -an
># 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
># Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)
># OS: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.11
>...
>mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location =
>   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
>     special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
>     special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix =
>}
>...
>protocols = " imap"
>...

-- 
Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet.

Re: Fast searching from android device with Dovecot/Maildir

[Sami Ketola via dovecot]

Hi,

you probably need to set up some kind of FTS backend and index your mails.
See https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/ 


Sami


> On 1 Dec 2019, at 23.18, John Gateley via dovecot  wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using dovecot as an imap server, mail is stored in mail directories.
> Configuration is below.
> 
> One mail directory has about 14 Gb of mail in the inbox and .Sent directories.
> 
> Searching from an Android phone with gmail is slow or doesn't work (it times 
> out).
> 
> Is there a configuration for Dovecot that can improve this? A better e-mail 
> client
> for Android?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> root@giraffe:~# dovecot --version
> 2.2.27 (c0f36b0)
> root@giraffe:~# doveconf -an
> # 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)
> # OS: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.11
> ...
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location =
>   mailbox Drafts {
> special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
> special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
> special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
> special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
> special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix =
> }
> ...
> protocols = " imap"
> ...

Fast searching from android device with Dovecot/Maildir

[John Gateley via dovecot]

Hello,

I am using dovecot as an imap server, mail is stored in mail directories.
Configuration is below.

One mail directory has about 14 Gb of mail in the inbox and .Sent 
directories.


Searching from an Android phone with gmail is slow or doesn't work (it 
times out).


Is there a configuration for Dovecot that can improve this? A better 
e-mail client

for Android?

Thanks,

John


root@giraffe:~# dovecot --version
2.2.27 (c0f36b0)
root@giraffe:~# doveconf -an
# 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)
# OS: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.11
...
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location =
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix =
}
...
protocols = " imap"
...