[Dovecot] New full text search indexer

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Daniel Watts wrote:

> Timo - we were just having a conversation about how we might be able to 
> provide full body indexed search for our clients and I realised it might 
> be worth checking the Dovecot list to see if this has been done 
> already...
>
> And then I find this thread!
>
> What is the latest? Searches in the headers work fantastically but any 
> search in a sizeable folder (1000's messages) often just time out.

FWIW in 1.1beta releases, you can enable the "squat" plugin and get 
full-text indexed search already.

Timo's working on improvements, as you can see, and a replacement, but 
don't forget that Squat is real and pretty fast.

To enable it, do:

1. In the "protocol imap {" section of the config, add this line to the 
end:

 	 mail_plugins = fts fts_squat

Do that just before the close curly brace.

2. If you have a "plugin {" section of the dovecot.conf, do 2(a). 
Otherwise, do 2(b).

2a. In the "plugin {" section, add this line to the end:

   fts = squat

2b. At the end of the file, write this:

   plugin {
       fts = squat
   }

That should be all!  SEARCH TEXT will be, shall we say, accelerated. 
(Note that indexes have to be generated sometime, so the way things are 
now they're generated at the first SEARCH TEXT.)

-- Asheesh.

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Is it clean in other dimensions?