On 09/04/2015 13:59, Pete Maclean wrote:
> If I understand them correctly, using such an indexer means providing
> a word-based search. Now, as I noted in another message, that might
> be a very good choice these days since that is what a lot of people
> are accustomed to. But IMAP promises a string-based search for which
> you would want to use hashes based on n-grams instead.
I was under impression that Mark Crispin thought that being more
flexible when searching (i.e. using word-based search) was quite
acceptable according to RFC 3501.
> At 02:31 PM 4/8/2015, Hoa V. Dinh wrote:
>> You probably want to use a full text indexer such as Lucene / Elastic
>> Search in this case.
>> It will prevent the server from iterating on each email.
>>
>> --
>> Hoa V. Dinh
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>> An important thing to be aware of - if you have iPhone users. iOS
>>> since version 7
>>> has done a BODY search on every folder if you do a search. That's
>>> prohibitively
>>> expensive if you're scanning emails every time.