On 13 Aug 2019, at 15.37, Jean-Daniel via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
Le 13 août 2019 à 14:16, Sami Ketola via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org a écrit :
On 13 Aug 2019, at 14.58, James Brown via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
I’m thinking of getting Solr working with my Dovecot server. Server is new 6-core Mac Mini, mail store of over 1/2 TB. Mailboxes with 100s of thousands of messages.
But I’m not sure if:
a) it will make enough of a difference and
Choose mailbox format wisely. sdbox preferred unless HFS+ has problems with 100s of thousands of small files in same directory. If so, then use mdbox with periodic purges.
b) does Mail.app and other mail clients on Macs or iOS devices perform searches on their local copy of mail or does it just send a search request to the server?
None of the apple devices use IMAP SEARCH. They ALL maintain and use their own local search database on the device. Also they seem to refresh the database every now and then redownloading all emails.
Do you have a source for that. My experience is that without server search support, iOS is very slow at returning result. Moreover, it keep only latest messages and never download message until you read them.
I'm a apple device user myself. I have couple of iPhones, couple of iPads, couple if MacBooks and Mail.app on any of them is not using IMAP SEARCH. And I cannot find any configuration option to enable it. Only spotlight index is used. On Mac OS Mail.App seems to store the indexed data to:
samik@samikworkmac:~>ls -1 Library/Mail/V6/MailData/Envelope\ Index* Library/Mail/V6/MailData/Envelope Index Library/Mail/V6/MailData/Envelope Index-shm Library/Mail/V6/MailData/Envelope Index-wal
if those files are removed or spotlight search for mails is disabled Mail.App can't find anything anymore. It does not fall back to IMAP SEARCH.
Sami