From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "hpanvin@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:25:41 -0700 Message-ID: <3f01b4a5-8dfa-4eb4-bfa3-490d5ebf0281@email.android.com> References: <20111026202235.GA20928@havoc.gtf.org> <1319969101.5215.20.camel@dabdike> <4EAF1731.2070908@zytor.com> <4EAF1FF6.3000500@zytor.com> <4EAF66C7.6080909@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42293 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750817Ab1KAEZy (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:25:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: david@lang.hm, James Bottomley , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Body searches are still slow, at least with dovecot on the server. No idea about gmail as the server. Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:25 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >> I use IMAP on my phone, and with Thunderpants... I mean >Thunderbird... >> and it works quite nicely. > >Including things like searching lkml etc? > >I've been successful in using IMAP for just reading my inbox (even >over a cell network). Then IMAP is reasonably fine, at least if you do >client-side caching. > >But not for actual real *work*, where I actually search for specific >email authors and words in the body? Not so much. > >Maybe it's because I'm used to having all my mail locally, but >searching all my emails is one of my most common operations. The gmail >web interface does that fine. IMAP has never worked for me, despite >some client/server combinations allegedly supporting server-side >searches. Maybe I never hit the right combination, but I tested things >that were *supposed* to do it. > >Actually, most of my attempts at using IMAP have been unacceptably >slow even when I don't do searches. I used to do huge inboxes, which >brought just about anything to a standstill. I only got rid of my >habit of big inboxes thanks to another gmail feature - you don't have >to save your non-inbox email in a folder, you can just "archive" it >and it goes away but is still easily searchable. > > Linus -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.