Although dovecot comes with its own full-text indexed search, it doesn’t seem to be enabled by default, at least in Fedora 10. This is a shame. For me, it makes a search for body text take a few seconds rather than a couple minutes.
To fix, modify your /etc/dovecot.conf and restart dovecot.
- Add fts and fts_squat to the mail_plugins line in your protocol section (protocol imap for me).
Specifically, look for:
protocol imap {
...
#mail_plugins =
...
}
and change it to look more like:
protocol imap {
...
mail_plugins = fts fts_squat
...
}
plugins {
...
fts = squat
...
}
Sadly, there was no Ubuntu help forum thread that made all this blindingly obvious, so I hope this post fills that need. This all worked on Fedora 10 with dovecot 1.1.10.
Have a nice day.
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