Body searches are still slow, at least with dovecot on the server. No idea about gmail as the server. Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:25 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I use IMAP on my phone, and with Thunderpants... I mean >Thunderbird... >> and it works quite nicely. > >Including things like searching lkml etc? > >I've been successful in using IMAP for just reading my inbox (even >over a cell network). Then IMAP is reasonably fine, at least if you do >client-side caching. > >But not for actual real *work*, where I actually search for specific >email authors and words in the body? Not so much. > >Maybe it's because I'm used to having all my mail locally, but >searching all my emails is one of my most common operations. The gmail >web interface does that fine. IMAP has never worked for me, despite >some client/server combinations allegedly supporting server-side >searches. Maybe I never hit the right combination, but I tested things >that were *supposed* to do it. > >Actually, most of my attempts at using IMAP have been unacceptably >slow even when I don't do searches. I used to do huge inboxes, which >brought just about anything to a standstill. I only got rid of my >habit of big inboxes thanks to another gmail feature - you don't have >to save your non-inbox email in a folder, you can just "archive" it >and it goes away but is still easily searchable. > > Linus -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
