Re: searching local mail stores

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> On 2016-01-05 09:43, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I think the problem is that you can't actually use notmuch with the
>> nnimap backend.
>
> Ah, I see. I could switch to the nnmaildir backend, but I prefer to let
> dovecot handle all the mail manipulation.
>
>> But I think the idea is: if you're using an IMAP server, you're supposed
>> to be letting the server do the searching, and give you the results.
>> Searching the filesystem directly is kind of "going behind the server's
>> back". I don't actually know if that would cause any real problems, but
>> the code is definitely set up with that assumption in mind.
>>
>> Maybe try the FTS dovecot plugin?
>
> I should really do that (it's in my long todo list). I first need to
> convert my installation to use a single dovecot instance, though. (A
> couple hours later …) OK, done. I'll look into FTS (probably Lucene)
> a little bit later.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion,

Well I'm not saying you've got to do it this way! I'm not trying to
advocate one method over the other, as I really don't have a
comprehensive understanding of how all this works. I don't want to lead
anyone astray...