Remote xapian database

[David Bremner]

admin at 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.