On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah <a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> In GahNU, answer find you :) >> >> But you ought to do your bit and find duckduckgo while you're at it. > > I am doing some searching myself, but I did want some opinions from > the list. Thank you for sharing your opinions.
All good. I am also interested in the indexing side. Please do let us know what solution you find which works well for your email storage volume. About 6 years ago I encouraged a friend to move from OutlookExpress to Thunderbird, for libre reasons, and for getting familiar with software which is cross-platform to GNU/Linux. They had about 3GiB of OutlookExpress files, with many folders, and Thunderbird I think managed to import them all, BUT was significantly slower for searching and everything, so they could not practically make the switch at the time. They were running an 2000-era Pentium4 2GHz, 1G RAM, 120G laptop HDD. It is so long ago I don't remember the details, but perhaps Thunderbird indexing is better now, and perhaps some fine tuning such as the suggestion in this thread to use mbox files, could help. I might contact my old friend and ask if they'd like to try swapping over again. An open question for me is whether an imapd server side indexing solution might solve this type of performance problem (running locally on ones laptop that is). A quick search shows up: dovecot-solr - Solr full text search support for Dovecot Good luck, and I do hope you find a great solution to large mailbox storing and searching! Best Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnsseurtnera37pamcvtd54ltkgyocw9rbchngaiwmv6...@mail.gmail.com