[Dovecot] testing fts-solr?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.3.2012, at 13.24, Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 2012-02-28 9:57 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> So, Solr in Dovecot works perfectly.
> 
> Timo, a follow-up on this...
> 
> Thunderbird has a 'Quickfilter Toolbar' with a little searchbox that applies a filter of the current folder message view pane (to show you only messages in the pane that meet the criteria specified). The default criteria that are selected are just 'Sender', 'Recipients' and 'Subject', but you can also select 'Body' (and a few others like 'Unread', 'Contain attachments', etc), but the 'Body' criteria is the one that would want/need to use the fts indexes, so...
> 
> Can dovecots fts indexes be used in a case like this? In other words, will it 'just work'? Or will it *not* work? Or, would the client need to specify the folder in the commands it sends to limit the search and/or results to just the currently selected folder? Or is this even possible for such a simple/limited use filtering mechanism?

The regular IMAP protocol supports searching only from the selected folder. But I guess this quickfilter search also searches from only the selected folder. So I don't see a problem.