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Re: Thunderbird Architecture Analysis SOW<br>
<b>From: </b>Tanstaafl<br>
<b>To:</b> Tb-planning <br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 17/03/2016 15:14:41 15:14 GMT ST +0000
[Week 11]<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 3/17/2016 10:26 AM, Ben Bucksch <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ben.bucksch@beonex.com"><ben.bucksch@beonex.com></a> wrote:
> I'd say:
> * historic growth of features like server-side search, quick-filter and
> client-side search based on gloda; and message views based on folders
> and messages (old style) vs. conversations (gmail style).
I (think) I concur...
The main problem with GLODA as I see it is it is only useful for local
storage.
I use IMAP only, and because I have huge stores of mail, I have GLODA
and all local caching/offline storage completely disabled except for a
few select folders (this is why I hated GLODA with a passion when it was
first released).
So, for me, GLODA is useless.
What I would love to see is GLODA extended to make use of server side
indexes for IMAP accounts (for servers that provide such - are dovecot
and cyrus the only ones?) to be able to have fast *client* side full
text searching on remote IMAP mail, without having to maintain full
local copies of all of the mail. When you have 15+ IMAP accounts, each
with 1-5GB of mail, and a few with 15-50GB of mail, maintaining local
copies is pretty much a noop.#</pre>
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That would be okay if I could run a local version of the server in
my LAN; but would it be a huge technological ask?<br>
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I think I am on the edge of usability running GLODA on everything
(my local backups are around 50 Gbytes) but majority of this is POP3
for speed (bad / limited network connection) and independence (Some
of my mailboxes went offline when the ISP went out of business,
others are waiting to). Start up of Tb is somewhat sluggish, but
once running I am happy with performance. I would believe running a
local server could improve that performance somewhat.<br>
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But the discussion is a little academic without a strong sponsor or
volunteer to back up such a project? So is this complex + costly? An
external db engine would certainly be nice for running some
"off-line" data processing outside of Tb.<br>
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Axel<br>
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