Strategy for fts

[Peter Chiochetti]

Am 04.02.20 um 12:37 schrieb Peter Chiochetti:
> Am 04.02.20 um 11:46 schrieb Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay:
>> Hi Philon,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your thoughts!
>>
>> Can I ask you if using Solr improved things for you? I have a mailbox 
>> with 15 years of e-mail and searching things take a long time.
> 
> Here, SOLR itself searches a quarter million mails in split seconds and 
> returns very good results. That is on a low memory average machine.


Looking at the facts, it is closer to half a million mails in a 160GB 
Maildir, lots of trash too, but no one to sort it out. SOLR index is 1.2 
GB in size on disk. A tremendous ratio IMO.

In dovecot terms this is likely considered a small installation. We are 
a small team too :) and quite happy with the generous gift of dovecot, 
and Thunderbird BTW.


> Only problem is search through e.g. nested folders from IMAP: something 
> like ESEARCH would be nice - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6237

PS: There is powerful client side search in some MUAs, yet sometimes 
serverside comes handy.

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peter