Re: Big IMAP folders

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Andrzej Adam Filip <Andrzej.Filip@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> b) Have you considered using local imap folders with last few
>>>> hundredths messages from the lists?
>>>
>>> A local IMAP server (and synchronizing with offlineimap) is very
>>> nice.  But why only store the last few hundreds?  My emacs-devel
>>> group has about 25.000 messages, its size is about 232 MB, and Gnus
>>> handles it fine. :-)
>>
>> How often do search *ALL* messages in the folder? :-)
>
> Very frequently.  My local imap server (Dovecot) does full text indexing
> on the fly, so searches are very fast.  Of course, if the imap server
> would search by grepping, large groups would be bad in that respect.

Whenever I open 1_000+ messages IMAP folder ("server-less" dovecot) gnus
does full scoring and it takes a few seconds.

After reading your "testimony" I tend to believe it may be 
"under optimalisation" of my configuration.

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