Fast searching from android device with Dovecot/Maildir

[Frank-Ulrich Sommer]

I dont't know the capabilities of gmail, but IMAP supports server side search which is quite fast if the Solr full text search plugin for dovecot is used (wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Solr). For debian "dovecot-solr" can be used.

For Android K9-Mail does not really support server side search, Aquamail does and for other mail clients I don't know.

Am 1. Dezember 2019 22:18:37 MEZ schrieb John Gateley via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
>Hello,
>
>I am using dovecot as an imap server, mail is stored in mail
>directories.
>Configuration is below.
>
>One mail directory has about 14 Gb of mail in the inbox and .Sent 
>directories.
>
>Searching from an Android phone with gmail is slow or doesn't work (it 
>times out).
>
>Is there a configuration for Dovecot that can improve this? A better 
>e-mail client
>for Android?
>
>Thanks,
>
>John
>
>
>root at giraffe:~# dovecot --version
>2.2.27 (c0f36b0)
>root at giraffe:~# doveconf -an
># 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
># Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)
># OS: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.11
>...
>mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location =
>   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
>     special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
>     special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix =
>}
>...
>protocols = " imap"
>...

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Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
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