Re: How to improve mail search from iPad and other mobile devices

2014-09-24 Thread Robert Mueller
According to Apple's manual, Mail searches all folders like this: Searching looks at the address fields, the subject, and the message body. FYI when we found out about this change, we made all BODY searches from iOS become FUZZY BODY searches to make them work reasonably.

Re: How to improve mail search from iPad and other mobile devices

2014-09-24 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi, thanks, that's valuable info, even if it doesn't help us until we are able to run 2.5. I noticed in the Fastmail branch on Github that the code currently only matches iOS 7. I assume you are running a version in production that also matches iOS 8. if (is_ios !strcmp(field.s,

How to improve mail search from iPad and other mobile devices

2014-09-18 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi, my boss has tasked me with improving the performance of IMAP searches using mail clients on mobile devices, mostly Apple's Mail on iPhone and iPad, because that's what he uses. The bad performance he experiences is exacerbated by the fact that he has one of the largest mail accounts we

Re: How to improve mail search from iPad and other mobile devices

2014-09-18 Thread Michael Menge
Hi, Quoting Sebastian Hagedorn haged...@uni-koeln.de: Hi, [...] Search for addresses and subject should in theory be reasonably fast because the results should mostly come from the cache. We also use squatter, which should help with the body searches. However, each mailbox is

Re: How to improve mail search from iPad and other mobile devices

2014-09-18 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014, at 11:51 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: Hi, my boss has tasked me with improving the performance of IMAP searches using mail clients on mobile devices, mostly Apple's Mail on iPhone and iPad, because that's what he uses. The bad performance he experiences is

Re: How to improve mail search from iPad and other mobile devices

2014-09-18 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi Bron, It sounds remarkably like you want the full text xapian indexing that exists in the FastMail branch! how does that differ from what squatter does, and will it be part of the 2.5 release you're currently planning? Thanks Sebastian -- Sebastian Hagedorn - Weyertal 121, Zimmer 2.02

Re: How to improve mail search from iPad and other mobile devices

2014-09-18 Thread Vladimir Klejch
Hi the performance hit with usage of incremental squatter update should not by so high as with full reindex. Cheers Kleo -- _ | You have moved the mouse.