[Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jan 5 10:26:06 EET 2010


On 5.1.2010, at 10.17, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

>> v1.1+ has somewhat faster search code. At least it's using boyer-moore with some of my own uglyness to make it support incremental searches. Wonder if there's a nicer and faster way to do that than what I implemented.
> 
> Hi Timo,
> 
> I'm not sure if you saw my original post.  I'm using Dovecot 1.0.15 (Debian
> Lenny package) so I'm quite behind the current Dovecot rev.

I did, and I agree that it's Dovecot's searching code that's the bottleneck in your system, that's why I said it should work faster (with less CPU usage) in v1.1. You could get a v1.2 Debian package from backports.org.

And you're right, Dovecot doesn't try to use threads to do searching faster. I don't think it's all that useful in most installations, and implementing it is too much work.


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