281073 - Pre-indexed search on mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 474701

(MailNews Core :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Scott Windsor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This is a feature request for pre-indexed mail search on IMAP accounts.  Today,
the header search is quite fast (since it's downloaded those locally), but the
full body search takes quite some time on large mailboxes across the network. 
Outlook suffers the same problem, but there is an extension called Lookout which
runs and creates a search index (much like the recent desktop search products
recently).  As a result, the full search is very fast.  Could a search feature
like this be added to thunderbird?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up IMAP account with a large number of mail
2. to a full body search

Actual Results:  
It worked succesfully, but very slow (in minutes) to get through all of my mail.

Expected Results:  
The same, but faster ;)

Here's the Lookout page - http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/

Comment 1

[Guillaume Rischard]

Obviously, this happens on any OS, any architecture, any version.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Guillaume Rischard]

bump to avoid automatic deletion

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Is this bug specific to IMAP?  Does Thunderbird already do pre-indexed searches for POP?

Comment 5

[David Fraser]

Some IMAP servers use indexes and apparently Thunderbird takes advantage of this:
http://www.zimbra.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5105

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dupe?

Comment 7

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Gloda does pre-indexed search.  Gloda will be exposed on bug 474701.