On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:55 -0400, John Wells wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:37 -0400, John Wells wrote: >> >> Guys, >> >> >> >> We have a very large maildir for email auditing purposes. It's >> >> currently at 600 GB and continues to grow. >> >> >> >> Can dovecot handle this with squat indexing, or am I out of my mind? >> > >> > You can try of course, but that might be a bit too much. :) I've only >> > tested with a 1,4 GB mailbox and memory usage went somewhere like 700 MB >> > I think. >> >> Aha...I see...I was under the mistake impression that this was a >> disk-based index. > > It's stored on disk, but when indexing it needs to keep parts of the > index in memory. > >> Given that squat seem unfeasible, can anyone recommend another >> approach? I'll look at Lucene integration, but if anyone knows of a >> dovecot way or of another tool that would do this effectively, >> commercial or open source, please let me know. > > v1.1.2 has Solr support. It might work: > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Solr
Thanks Timo...from what I know of Solr, it can handle it. But I'm curious how the integration works...specifically: - When are messages added to Solr? Is it only when new ones arrive, or can older messages be injected as well? - How does searching work? Do you need a front-end search tool to Solr? Thanks! John
