On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Hmm. Or v1.2 has virtual mailboxes - you could create a single virtual mailbox from all your other mailboxes and then search it. I think if Squat is enabled it'll create a single index from all the mails. I'm not sure if I want to leave it like that though..
I hope that the index is shared - that you "index the index" by inode number, not filename or message UID in a mailbox, since that way you can avoid duplicate storage of index data between virtual mailboxes and normal ones.
I have also been thinking about making Squat indexes global for all mailboxes. If done well it should reduce disk space as well as enable fast multi-mailbox searches, but I'm a bit worried about memory usage and other slowness when updating the index. The Squat building/updating could use more work, but I haven't yet figured out a great solution for it.
Well, I think it would be okay - deploy it and we'll all tell you. (-;
(As always, thanks for this amazing software.)
-- Asheesh.
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