Re: nnir and notmuch?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I just set up a new system with the lucene text indexer, and it works
>> much better.
>
> Than what?

Than the native imap search, which is god-awfully slow.

To be clear, I use dovecot as a local imap cache. Originally I wasn't
using it as a daemon: mail came in via isync, which called dovecot at
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap. Then gnus called the same executable via
nnimap-shell-program to get the mail. Dovecot only "woke up" when one or
the other program called it.

Nnir search just used whatever search facilities dovecot provided out of
the box. It was slow. I read about integrating lucene into dovecot, and
as far as I could tell it wouldn't work when you were just calling
dovecot's imap executable -- you had to be running a dovecot instance.

So I switched to an always-running dovecot instance, configured the
lucene indexer, and now the exact same nnir searches go like lightning.

That's basically a summary of the blog post :)

E