Hi there.

I'm running a small (VPS) mail system just for myself for quite a while and want to support some friends and family now. For that I'm improving / documenting the setup.

One thing I never cared to implement was FTS support. Looking at the options [1] now, I'm stuck. I don't want solr (no Java bashing here, I'm sure that's working awesome. But I don't want to pull all these dependencies in on my tiny VPS: Memory and disk will be as small as I can get away with).

With that out of the way: What are my options?

Squat: Why's squat deprecated? Did it stop working? Can someone shed some light on the original reasons for the deprecation? What are the risks to go with squat anyway?

Clucene: That seems .. unusable. It would be my prefered choice (not deprecated, little dependencies), but .. it isn't packaged in deb based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu). It doesn't even _build_, because it doesn't use pkg-config to find the clucene includes (at least for 2.1.17) in these environments.

Centos is even more out of date with 2.0.9.

Given the experience above, is solr my only option to offer FTS? Can you guys share how you're having a stable base/os with a somewhat recent (and complete!) dovecot package?

Thanks a lot & regards, Ben

1: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS