dovecot - May 2008 - Timeout when using icedove's searching on a large amount of email.

Hello list.

I'm using dovecot as a local server, where I'm the only user (or so),
and I
appreciate using icedove searching functionality to roam through the whole inbox
in search of some specific string in the body of my emails.

Unfortunately, recently, such a search has become impossible, since the search
takes too much time, and the connection times out.

I've looked throughout the .conf file and the documentation, but I
haven't found
where I could increase the delay until timeout. If someone knew the right option
in the .conf file, it would be really great...

Guillaume Yziquel.

On May 5, 2008, at 9:50 PM, guillaume.yziquel at free.fr wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I'm using dovecot as a local server, where I'm the only user (or  
> so), and I
> appreciate using icedove searching functionality to roam through the  
> whole inbox
> in search of some specific string in the body of my emails.
>
> Unfortunately, recently, such a search has become impossible, since  
> the search
> takes too much time, and the connection times out.
>
> I've looked throughout the .conf file and the documentation, but I  
> haven't found
> where I could increase the delay until timeout. If someone knew the  
> right option
> in the .conf file, it would be really great...
It's Icedove that decides to timeout the connection. I don't know if  
you can change it.

With Dovecot v1.1 you could use full text search plugin and searches  
would be fast. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS

Although Dovecot could probably avoid this timeout by sending  
something to client every 30 seconds or so that "search is n% done".  
With FTS plugin enabled it's already doing that when indexing. I'll  
add in my TODO..

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