Maildir just for FTS? Standard Windows Search component (available for free) handles PST files excellently. Outlook is best email client. Even 2003. The only missing thing is inability to do imap-search request directly to imap server. So, if the message is not yet downloaded to local PST, Outlook (and Windows Search) will not find it. That's why webmail+dovecot fts is good thing to have. This FTS issue _may_be_ the problem in environment where users have not primary workstation. And thanks to Jerry for pointing another issue - problem if user logs in another workstation without logging out from first.
I tried to migrate to another clients several times. In the long run Outlook is the best. Even for IMAP. It does not handle IMAP perfectly, but quite well. It works OK with dovecot-imapd. If you are on Windows and you have MSOffice, Outlook is the answer.
Maarten Bezemer said the following on 22/11/09 17:19:
[Of course, one could argue that they should make Outlook conform to standards instead, but since they never showed any interest in conforming to standards with any product, that would be naive. Even with Vista's Windows Mail they adopted something "almost but not quite entirely unlike" Maildir format. Still better than PST, true..]
Thy did this for the same reason OSX moved to a (sort of) maildir for local storage: ability to do a fulltext search within mail and easily identify the message in the result list of the search.
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