Hi, On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:41:36 -0700, PGNet Dev wrote: > hi, > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: >> It's just not possible, because it doesn't support substring searches. >> But >> then again, perhaps no one cares. It's not like gmail's search is IMAP >> compliant either. >> >>> if the goal is fast, indexed FTS of dovecot IMAP stores from within a >>> MUA, is fts_solr even helpful? or is it targeted for web interfaces to >>> search ... ? >> >> You can add the break-imap-search option and it'll be helpful with those >> MUAs that use IMAP SEARCH command (Thunderbird I think, but not Apple >> Mail >> or Outlook). > > Ok, clear. So, from a MUA perspective ... *IS* fts_solr > faster/better/cheaper/whatever than fts_squat? > > It _seems_ that squat is fast, _does_ substring searches, and _is_ > under your control in dovecot. Life seems simpler, but just as > functional, with "just squat". > > I'm clearly missing or misunderstanding the "solr advantage" ...
Cross-referencing http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-September/042904.html So when you have a huge amount of folders (like we do... there are users with >10000 folders), Solr could have a big advantage through the single index. Patrick. -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: E883A005 https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005
