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Re: [MORG] Why IMAP extensions are (not) used



On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:07 +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Using a DB2-like backend will boost multmailbox searches for more and 
> more varied queries than just a lucene-like index. But the lucene-like 
> index will be really fast for an important subset of queries (such as a 
> simple SEARCH BODY x for all the user's mailboxes).

Just one point: Using Lucene or pretty much anything else for SEARCH
TEXT or SEARCH BODY violates RFC 3501, since they can't do substring
searches. SEARCH FUZZY helps here.

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