[Dovecot] Indexing of mails to speed up the IMAP SEARCH command

[Timo Sirainen]

On Apr 9, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 4/8/2009, Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
>> For message body indexing there are a couple of choices:
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS
>
> On this page it says that the indexes are not updated with deliver and
> suggests using a cron job...
>
> Is this planned to be added anytime soon (1.2? 1.3?)?

No. The code to do that is a bit complex.

> Or should I go
> ahead and plan on doing this via cron as suggested?

It's not really necessary to do it via cron either, although users may  
then have to wait a bit longer if they have received a lot of new mail.