From 11 Oct 2013 (Rick van Rein)

"Hello,

I love Dovecot, but when developing a small IMAP tool, I ran into searching behaviour can easily be optimised. Please forgive a rather detailed suggestion. This was on Dovecot 1.2.15 on Debian Squeeze.

My tool? It's called "midget" and retrieves documents from an IMAP box based on their mid: or cid: identifier, as per RFC 2392. I thought this would be useful to retrieve email attachments into a remote shell environment. When using Kerberos, the credentials and a strong hint of one's mail address are already present anyway, DNS SRV does the rest. If you want to see the early code, I'll be happy to share it here."

Hi Rick.

Thanks for the suggested optimisation - I am not sure if it is you who I have to think for contributing towards making IMAP search fast again.

In any case, if you see this I would be interested to see the source for midget if you are willing to share. If you don't want to post to the list then my email is laeeth

at

laeeth.com

Thanks.

Laeeth