On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 11:57 +0000, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
People, where to read about how to make the most of the current Dovecot search capabilities, including squat and possibly also the related future plans? There are many aspects like IMAP protocol itself, extensions, current support into Dovecot, support among MUAs... Could you post some good links, please?
There isn't really much to say about this I think:
Squat: Supposed to be completely transparent, but I don't like its performance. The indexing speed is too slow. And it seems like the incremental indexing rebuilds the index too often. (I used to use it, but every time I wanted to do a search, it spent a few minutes on indexing, even when there hadn't been all that many new messages.) Needs a redesign some day.
Solr: You can either configure it to use X-FAST-TEXT/X-FAST-BODY searches, which aren't supported by any clients (the idea was to modify your webmail to use them), or you could configure it to use the regular TEXT/BODY searches and be usable transparently, but that violates IMAP RFC.
There's also FUZZY search extension draft, which is mainly about making X-FAST-* standardized and perhaps supported by clients some day.