dovecot - Jan 2015 - Indexing Mail faster

Thomas Leuxner:
> I have a view defined (virtual plugin) with around 22.000 messages in it
interesting.
I assume you drop multiple mailing lists together in a mailbox and separate them
using the virtual plugin, right?
could publish how you configured dovecot virtual plugin?
I never had success on using the plugin in a useful way :-/

Thanks
Andreas

* Andreas Schulze <sca at andreasschulze.de> 2015.01.25 12:47:
> I assume you drop multiple mailing lists together in a mailbox and separate
them using the virtual plugin, right?
> could publish how you configured dovecot virtual plugin?
The namespace "Virtual" will look for its configuration in the
user's home directory:

namespace {
  location = virtual:~/mdbox/virtual
  prefix = Virtual/
  separator = /
}

Inside the ~/mdbox/virtual directory the actual query is defined in directory
'Flagged' (that will show up in the MUA as sub-dir). The actual
search/query is defined in file 'dovecot-virtual' which will create the
"magic":

$ cat virtual/Flagged/dovecot-virtual 
*
Public/*
  flagged

Another example, the one I used in the original reply, is 'gluing'
together archives as a single view:

$ cat virtual/Postfix-Users/dovecot-virtual 
Public/Archive/Mailing-Lists/Postfix-Users/*
Public/Mailing-Lists/Postfix-Users
  all

HTH
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Thomas Leuxner:
> namespace {
>   location = virtual:~/mdbox/virtual
>   prefix = Virtual/
>   separator = /
> }
>
> $ cat virtual/Flagged/dovecot-virtual
> *
> Public/*
>   flagged
once setup correctly it works like expected :-)

> Another example, the one I used in the original reply, is 'gluing'
> together archives as a single view:
>
> $ cat virtual/Postfix-Users/dovecot-virtual
> Public/Archive/Mailing-Lists/Postfix-Users/*
> Public/Mailing-Lists/Postfix-Users
>   all
how do you separate older postings into the Archive?
something like "doveadm search + move ?


Andreas

On Jan 25, 2015, at 5:05 AM, Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net>
wrote:
> The namespace "Virtual" will look for its configuration in the
user's home directory:
> 
> namespace {
>  location = virtual:~/mdbox/virtual
>  prefix = Virtual/
>  separator = /
> }
> 
> Inside the ~/mdbox/virtual directory the actual query is defined in
directory 'Flagged' (that will show up in the MUA as sub-dir). The
actual search/query is defined in file 'dovecot-virtual' which will
create the "magic":
> 
> $ cat virtual/Flagged/dovecot-virtual 
> *
> Public/*
>  flagged
> 
> Another example, the one I used in the original reply, is 'gluing'
together archives as a single view:
> 
> $ cat virtual/Postfix-Users/dovecot-virtual 
> Public/Archive/Mailing-Lists/Postfix-Users/*
> Public/Mailing-Lists/Postfix-Users
>  all
This all sounds interesting. Is there anything i can read to understand what the
purpose of Virtual is and why this would help? It sounds like you are using a
shared space for mailing lists (which I can see would be useful if you had many
people subscribing to the same lists). If so, doesn?t each user lose their
indications of what messages are read or replied to?

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