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 > exacerbated by the fact that he has one of the largest mail accounts we > have: currently he has 23 GB of mails ... at least they're not all in his > INBOX – he has about 1,750 folders. > > According to Apple's manual, Mail searches all folders like this: > "Searching looks at the address fields, the subject, and the message body." > > 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 currently squatted roughly every 24 hours. With busy mailboxes I presume > that leaves a large window where search will have to fall back to searching > every message in that mailbox, right? > > We are looking into using metapartitions to move all the relevant files to > SSD to make access to cache and squat files faster, but that won't help > with "outdated" squat files, right? Would it make sense to squat his > mailboxes more often? It sounds remarkably like you want the full text xapian indexing that exists in the FastMail branch! Bron. -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
