On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 16:26 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Slightly OT: however, there are a few programs out there that offer a > richer indexing method (a la Google for your email). > > I wonder if there's a place for that somewhere in the Cyrus structure. > There's obvious utility in a richer search-and-find method. you don't seem to be familiar with squatter, which does full text search for Cyrus. I can search a gigabyte of mail in a couple of seconds (my e-mail client is Evolution, but I imagine Thunderbird will send off the IMAP body search command just as well.) squatter is far from perfect, though -- it runs periodically, ie. at night[1], and indexes everything afresh each time. this is a significant I/O load for an IMAP server, and it may not run to completion during the night on a large server. the index itself will also be almost the same size as the mailbox. [1] Cyrus will do brute force search for the messages not in the squatter index, so you won't miss messages in your search. squatter index can be enabled on a folder by folder basis by setting an annotation on the folder. -- Kjetil T. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
