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@tracker1 If i'm not mistaken i think thunderbird and other email clients who support conventional maildir often include a local db (such as sqlite) whose purp

@tracker1 If i'm not mistaken i think thunderbird and other email clients who support conventional maildir often include a local db (such as sqlite) whose purpose tends to be mostly for helping indexing content to ease some aspects of search. That being said, as others have noted, search mostly tends to be fast enough at the filesystem level. ;-)

tracker1 2y ago
Not in an instance where the file system is remote, and used by thousands of users. Such as via S3/R2 or similar.
- mxuribe 2y ago
  Good point! I was only thinking from the client side/perspective, and not server side. :-)