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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 16:43 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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.

I did a trace and naturally enough that is what's happening. It's not
obvious how it could be improved within the IMAP model since IIUC the
search is implicitly tied to the current folder. Probably not worth
spending time on as I'm guessing a search over the whole account isn't a
common case.

poc