On May 5, 2008, at 9:50 PM, guillaume.yziquel@free.fr wrote:
Hello list.
I'm using dovecot as a local server, where I'm the only user (or
so), and I appreciate using icedove searching functionality to roam through the
whole inbox in search of some specific string in the body of my emails.Unfortunately, recently, such a search has become impossible, since
the search takes too much time, and the connection times out.I've looked throughout the .conf file and the documentation, but I
haven't found where I could increase the delay until timeout. If someone knew the
right option in the .conf file, it would be really great...
It's Icedove that decides to timeout the connection. I don't know if
you can change it.
With Dovecot v1.1 you could use full text search plugin and searches
would be fast. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS
Although Dovecot could probably avoid this timeout by sending
something to client every 30 seconds or so that "search is n% done".
With FTS plugin enabled it's already doing that when indexing. I'll
add in my TODO..