On 2014-09-25 01:40, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> 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 :)

I'd be really curious to hear more about this. Please let us know when
you publish your post.

Alan

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