On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25.1.2012, at 15.34, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > > >>> I am thinking about building some form of webmail specialized for some > >>> specific business purpose and I am thinking of building a sort of cache > >> in > >>> a DB by storing the email addr, date, subject and UID for quick lookups > >> and > >>> search of correspondance. > >> > >> Dovecot should already have such cache. If there are problems with > that, I > >> think it would be better to fix it on Dovecot's side rather than adding > a > >> second cache. > >> > > > > Very true. Has there been many search/index improvements since 1.0.9? I > > read thru the release notes but nothing jumped out at me. > > Disk I/O usage is the same probably, CPU usage is less in newer versions. > > >>> I am doing this because I am having issue with multiple people > searching > >>> thru email folders that have 100k+ emails (which is another problem in > >>> itself, searches don't seem to scale well when folder goes above 60k > >>> emails). > >> > >> Maybe enable fts-solr or fts-lucene? (Both work much better in v2.1.) > >> > > > > I was under the impression that lucene was for full-text search. I'm just > > doing simple from/to field searches. > > In v2.1 from/to fields are also searched via FTS. >
Ok, I managed to compile 2.1 rc5 on an old ubuntu 8.04 without any issue. However, the config file is giving me a bit of a hard time, I'll figure this part out tomorrow. I'd just like to confirm that there is no risk to the actual mail data is ever something is badly configured when I start dovecot 2.1. I am managing this old server on my spare time for a friend, so I don't want to loose 2million+ emails and have to deal with those consequences :)
