Fast searching from android device with Dovecot/Maildir

[Sami Ketola]

Hi,

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

Sami


> On 1 Dec 2019, at 23.18, John Gateley via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> 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 at giraffe:~# dovecot --version
> 2.2.27 (c0f36b0)
> root at 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"
> ...

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