On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 08:07 -0400, Jay Levitt wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 07:56 -0400, Jay Levitt wrote: > >> But what I'm not clear about: Does it then get updated on every delivery > >> by LDA? Or does the index also need to get updated when I do a search, > >> assuming there's been at least one message delivered since the last search? > > > > Currently it gets updated only when searching. I wanted to have it > > updated immediately (optionally) while mails are being delivered, but > > never got around to implementing it. > > OK, some followups then: > > - Is the index rebuilt from scratch every time, or should updates be fairly > quick?
It's updated, not rebuilt. > I just did a search on my inbox (about 10,000 messages), and I know > I've done a search there in the past month - yet it either took many, many > minutes, or it timed out. Indexing 10k messages from scratch shouldn't take all that many seconds with somewhat recent computers.. > - If I wrote a script to log in and search for something, and ran it every > night through cron, would that achieve daily indexing? Yes.
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