From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:50:15 +0000 (+2100)
Subject: Re: Remote xapian database
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Re: Remote xapian database
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+Subject: Re: Remote xapian database
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+admin@softded.net writes:
+
+> Hello,
+>
+> Xapian have remote database mode:
+> http://xapian.org/docs/remote.html
+>
+> Do you plan use it in future? I have more then 8 million letters and my
+> xapian db use 50 gb store :)
+>
+> If I can use remote database, I will move database to external server
+> from my work PC (with Pentium 4) it will be very fast! :)
+
+One thing to keep in mind is that there are several places in the code
+where mail files are opened directly, so just having remote access to
+the xapian database is not going to be enough, unless you want to have a
+local copy of the messages, which is almost surely larger than the
+database.