<html><head></head><body>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.<br><br>For Android K9-Mail does not really support server side search, Aquamail does and for other mail clients I don't know.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Am 1. Dezember 2019 22:18:37 MEZ schrieb John Gateley via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hello,<br><br>I am using dovecot as an imap server, mail is stored in mail directories.<br>Configuration is below.<br><br>One mail directory has about 14 Gb of mail in the inbox and .Sent <br>directories.<br><br>Searching from an Android phone with gmail is slow or doesn't work (it <br>times out).<br><br>Is there a configuration for Dovecot that can improve this? A better <br>e-mail client<br>for Android?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>John<br><br><br>root@giraffe:~# dovecot --version<br>2.2.27 (c0f36b0)<br>root@giraffe:~# doveconf -an<br># 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf<br># Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)<br># OS: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.11<br>...<br>mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir<br>namespace inbox {<br> inbox = yes<br> location =<br> mailbox Drafts {<br> special_use = \Drafts<br> }<br> mailbox Junk {<br> special_use = \Junk<br> }<br> mailbox Sent {<br> special_use = \Sent<br> }<br> mailbox "Sent Messages" {<br> special_use = \Sent<br> }<br> mailbox Trash {<br> special_use = \Trash<br> }<br> prefix =<br>}<br>...<br>protocols = " imap"<br>...<br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet.</body></html>