dovecot - Oct 2009 - status & use-case of fts_solr?

i've deployed a Solr server, and setup Dovecot for *both* squat & solr
FTS.

iiuc, reading at,

 http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS
 http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Solr

as of dovecot v1.1.2, squat's required for IMAP compliance; solr
search breaks it.  is that still the case in v1.2?  Is IMAP-compliant
Solr search possible? planned?

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 ... ?

thanks.

On Oct 8, 2009, at 10:51 PM, PGNet Dev wrote:
> as of dovecot v1.1.2, squat's required for IMAP compliance; solr
> search breaks it.  is that still the case in v1.2?  Is IMAP-compliant
> Solr search possible? planned?
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).