On 5.3.2012, at 13.24, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2012-02-28 9:57 AM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: >> So, Solr in Dovecot works perfectly. > > Timo, a follow-up on this... > > Thunderbird has a 'Quickfilter Toolbar' with a little searchbox that applies > a filter of the current folder message view pane (to show you only messages > in the pane that meet the criteria specified). The default criteria that are > selected are just 'Sender', 'Recipients' and 'Subject', but you can also > select 'Body' (and a few others like 'Unread', 'Contain attachments', etc), > but the 'Body' criteria is the one that would want/need to use the fts > indexes, so... > > Can dovecots fts indexes be used in a case like this? In other words, will it > 'just work'? Or will it *not* work? Or, would the client need to specify the > folder in the commands it sends to limit the search and/or results to just > the currently selected folder? Or is this even possible for such a > simple/limited use filtering mechanism?
The regular IMAP protocol supports searching only from the selected folder. But I guess this quickfilter search also searches from only the selected folder. So I don't see a problem.
