<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">you probably need to set up some kind of FTS backend and index your mails.</div><div class="">See <a href="https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/" class="">https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sami</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Dec 2019, at 23.18, John Gateley via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" class="">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">I am using dovecot as an imap server, mail is stored in mail directories.<br class="">Configuration is below.<br class=""><br class="">One mail directory has about 14 Gb of mail in the inbox and .Sent directories.<br class=""><br class="">Searching from an Android phone with gmail is slow or doesn't work (it times out).<br class=""><br class="">Is there a configuration for Dovecot that can improve this? A better e-mail client<br class="">for Android?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">John<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">root@giraffe:~# dovecot --version<br class="">2.2.27 (c0f36b0)<br class="">root@giraffe:~# doveconf -an<br class=""># 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf<br class=""># Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)<br class=""># OS: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.11<br class="">...<br class="">mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir<br class="">namespace inbox {<br class=""> inbox = yes<br class=""> location =<br class=""> mailbox Drafts {<br class=""> special_use = \Drafts<br class=""> }<br class=""> mailbox Junk {<br class=""> special_use = \Junk<br class=""> }<br class=""> mailbox Sent {<br class=""> special_use = \Sent<br class=""> }<br class=""> mailbox "Sent Messages" {<br class=""> special_use = \Sent<br class=""> }<br class=""> mailbox Trash {<br class=""> special_use = \Trash<br class=""> }<br class=""> prefix =<br class="">}<br class="">...<br class="">protocols = " imap"<br class="">...<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>