[Dovecot] Zimbra benchmarking

[DINH Viêt Hoà]

On Nov 30, 2007 12:00 PM, DINH Viêt Hoà <dinh.viet.hoa at free.fr> wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007 11:38 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Zimbra is apparently building full text search indexes while appending,
> > so this test doesn't mean much until I can test Dovecot's performance
> > with Squat indexing.
>
> Hello, in fact, I'm not that much convinced by full-text search index
> server side.
> We consider response time, server side full text search will include
> client-server round-trip.
> So that, for example, on etpanX, I do some local indexing on the imap
> folders, so that when the user does a search, it's given in a fraction
> of second even if the server is slow.
> I think Mail.app on Mac OS X is doing the same.

By the way, how does Dovecot index the messsages ? Does it do the following ?
- when doing the search, it will collect messages that were not indexed
- will index those messages
- and do the search on the updated index.

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DINH Viêt Hoà