On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On 25.1.2012, at 15.34, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote:
I am thinking about building some form of webmail specialized for some specific business purpose and I am thinking of building a sort of cache in a DB by storing the email addr, date, subject and UID for quick lookups and search of correspondance.
Dovecot should already have such cache. If there are problems with that, I think it would be better to fix it on Dovecot's side rather than adding a second cache.
Very true. Has there been many search/index improvements since 1.0.9? I read thru the release notes but nothing jumped out at me.
Disk I/O usage is the same probably, CPU usage is less in newer versions.
I am doing this because I am having issue with multiple people searching thru email folders that have 100k+ emails (which is another problem in itself, searches don't seem to scale well when folder goes above 60k emails).
Maybe enable fts-solr or fts-lucene? (Both work much better in v2.1.)
I was under the impression that lucene was for full-text search. I'm just doing simple from/to field searches.
In v2.1 from/to fields are also searched via FTS.
Ok, I managed to compile 2.1 rc5 on an old ubuntu 8.04 without any issue. However, the config file is giving me a bit of a hard time, I'll figure this part out tomorrow.
I'd just like to confirm that there is no risk to the actual mail data is ever something is badly configured when I start dovecot 2.1. I am managing this old server on my spare time for a friend, so I don't want to loose 2million+ emails and have to deal with those consequences :)