Re: [Evolution] [Bulk] Fast full-text search of e-mails?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 07:34 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 21:41 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 06:39 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > So either
> > > (a) Evolution did not ask the server to do the search
> > >   - or -
> > > (b) their implementation of IMAP search is lame.
> >
> > Without tracing Evo, I can't say which of these is the answer, 
> > though I suspect it's probably (a). Google obviously does do search 
> > (duh) and there's no reason why it should do it badly just because 
> > it's an IMAP connection, even if their IMAP implementation is not 
> > the best. I don't know how Evo decides whether the server can do 
> > searching.
>
>         Hi,
> I tried to trace it (better know than guess). I invoked a simple "body 
> contains evolution" search on a GMail Inbox folder from evolution and 
> that was done server-side, as can be seen here:
>    H02430 UID SEARCH BODY "evolution"
>    * SEARCH 112 116 376 468 748
>    H02430 OK SEARCH completed (Success)
>
> I think it depends on the search itself, but the IMAPx tries to search 
> as much on the server as it can. Searching in summary headers is left 
> for a local search, of course.

Interesting. I don't understand why it's so much slower than the direct
webmail search. Perhaps it's iterating over the subscribed folders,
whereas the direct case just looks everywhere by default.

poc