> I'm glad to see that you're interested in JMAP :) We're also betting > very heavily on it at FastMail as I'm sure you're aware!
yes! i saw the JMAP proxy you have on github and subscribed on jmap-discuss. > We're using Xapian as part of Cyrus IMAP, and it's quite useful for > what we're doing, do you think this should be enough to store mailing lists archives? > There are some pitfalls to look out for, for example if you naively > index everything a search for "references" is going to return quite a > lot of messages. > Another problem with naive indexing is that Maildir allows message file > names to move as flags are added/removed, and you'll want your indexer > to avoid reindexing them every time. I expect you might already have a > datastructure that handles that though. i was plaining to have "append only" maildir strategy: nothing would be alterated. > In terms of search usefulness, most of our customers love the stemming > support, but it does have some exciting issues around languages and > diacritics and inability to match on anything other than word prefixes - > so you can't match partial strings inside a word. That may or may not > be an issue for your usecase. thanks for sharing. it should be taken carrefully. > I don't know Dezi or Lucy, so I don't have a strong opinion there. also good to know. thanks a lot for your reply. marc
