Fast searching from android device with Dovecot/Maildir

John Gateley dovecot at jfoo.net
Tue Dec 3 17:12:01 EET 2019


Thank you Frank-Ulrich, this looks perfect.

John

On 12/2/19 7:25 PM, Frank-Ulrich Sommer via dovecot wrote:
> 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
>

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