solr vs fts

[Aki Tuomi]

On 4.7.2019 12.22, Maciej Milaszewski IQ PL via dovecot wrote:
>>> A few clients have 25K and more e-mail
>>>
>>> I thinking about use solr like:
>>>  fts = solr
>>>  fts_solr = debug url=http://IP:8983/solr/ (solr in external machine)
>>>
>>> Does it make sense ? use dovecot_indexes and fts ?
>>> What is the difference in performance?
>>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Dovecot indexes are not actually related to FTS that much. Using FTS
>> usually makes sense since it speeds up IMAP fulltext searches.
>>
>> Aki
>>
> Hi
> So you're advised to use a solr or something else?
>

Using any FTS is advisable, currently suitable ones would be SOLR or
Xapian (see https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian)

Aki