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

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 17:03 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> 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.

Agree.

I would think a search over an entire account would have to be *very*
specific not to return a large number of `false positives` for the
desired message(s).

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA