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Far too kindFar too kindPosted Jan 16, 2010 11:22 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: Far too kind by foom Parent article: A look at Thunderbird 3
with a cyrus server searching is extremely efficiant (and with a decent server it can be significantly faster than on a slow laptop drive)
I was just recently testing this comparing two mail clients, one that used the server-side search and one that pulled everything to the client and searched there.
This was on a large complex account (80+ folders containing >60K messages)
searching on the client across all folders, 15 min
there are a lot of BAD IMAP implementations out there, courier-imap is one of them. it talks the IMAP protocol to the client, but is very inefficient on the server.
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Far too kind Posted Jan 16, 2010 21:42 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] >cyrus server searching is extremely efficiantThat's good to hear. I also noticed Squat for Dovecot. I've actually been thinking of switching to Dovecot (from Courier) for a while now. I guess if I ever do I'll try that plugin. So, I guess it is possible to run a mail server with indexed full-text search in it using readily available software. I do wonder what percentage of actual users have their mail on a server so configured, though. Squat's page makes it sound rather resource intensive, and it is only in an optional plugin.
>searching on the client across all folders, 15 min That just shows that whatever client you're using is rather crap, and also failed to make an index.
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