I got the following error message when trying a search in the whole message on all my mails (I'll admit that it's maybe a bit brutal) [[!img screenshot.png align="left" size="" alt=""]] Nice, let's call this [[done]] then :-) For some reason SELECT commands are extremely slow on virtual commands. After poking a bit I noticed that dropping on disks indexes gave a significant speed up (from 30s to 4s here). I guess dovecot does many useless seek/read/write somehow. Anyway the time lost when reconstructing the indexes is shorter than the time spend on disk I/O. -- [[guilhem]]