[Dovecot] About using Dovecot indexes with Thunderbird/kmail

[Anton Aylward]

Willie Gillespie said the following on 09/20/2011 11:35 PM:
> On 09/20/2011 03:37 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Using_Gloda
>> Well it is off, but I still have these index files ...
>>
>> So perhaps its not index that taking all the space and gets rebuilt when
>> T Bird says its downloading the headers and indexing ...
>
> Just have to ask: Is "Keep messages for this account on this computer"
> checked under the Synchronization&  Storage settings?

:-)
No, its not.  I'm aware of that one.

I've googled for GLODA and found some articles that makes me think its 
not as simple as one setting in the about:config
It seems even with GLODA turned OFF (see earlier in this thread) that
global-messages-db.sqlite keeps getting rebuilt - that is the index is 
being rebuilt.  So there must be more to it.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/gloda
under 'Data Storage'.

Why am I making an issue of this?
It seems pointless to me that I should run Dovecot on a server and let 
it do indexing and full text indexing "in the background" with the 
intent to offload this processing and storage from my laptop (and in due 
course netbook and 'Pad -- both of which will be underpowered and 
lacking in storage and memory compared to the mailhub server, when my 
preferred clients - Thunderbird and Kmail/nepomuk - are going to be 
doing the indexing over again.  While it may not matter on a hefty 
laptop it is going to matter on the Asus eee and tablets.






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