ESEARCH multiple folders

[Michael Slusarz]

On 7/7/2015 12:20 AM, Peter Chiochetti wrote:
> FTS-Solr is blazingly fast; yet searching e.g. an archive with
> subfolders still is slow; I learned, that this is a feature/bug of the
> imap protocol. So I'd like to ask:
>
> Does or will dovecot support the "IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension"
> specified in RFC 7377?

The speed (or lack thereof) has very little to do with the IMAP protocol 
limitations. RFC 7377 is not going to appreciably speed this process up; 
you'll probably get almost identical results pipelining all the 
subfolder searches.

This sounds more like an indexing issue.

michael