This is a limited implementation, so please backup your database before
running this search feature branch from now on as we may change things.
It's using a Unicode Snowball stemming tokenizer available from
https://github.com/littlesavage/sqlite3-unicodesn, also handily
available in src/sqlite3-unicodesn in Geary. If you want to look at the
search tables on the command line, cd into the unicodesn source folder,
run make and make install, then load sqlite3 like:
sqlite3 -cmd '.load unicodesn.sqlext' /path/to/geary.db
This introduces a background account synchronizer into Geary that
prefetches email folder-by-folder to a user-configurable epoch. The
current default is 15 days.
Additional work to make this user-visible is coming, in particular with
The primary purpose for this feature is to allow "full" conversations
(#4293), which needs more of the mailbox stored locally to do searching.
Previously, we were taking folder names as they came off the wire.
Turns out IMAP specifies that folder names with 8 bit code points are
encoded in a crazy scheme unique to IMAP. Now, we properly decode that
scheme to the correct UTF-8 folder names to be displayed to the user.
There's also now a database upgrade path that converts all existing
mailboxes to the decoded version, so your existing database should just
keep working.
It is done.
Initial implementation of the new database subsystem
These pieces represent the foundation for ticket #5034
Expanded transactions, added VersionedDatabase
Further expansions of the async code.
Moved async pool logic into Database, where it realistically
belongs.
Further improvements. Introduced geary-db-test.
Added SQL create and update files for Geary.Db
version-001 to version-003 are exact copies of the SQLHeavy scripts
to ensure no slight changes when migrating. version-004 upgrades
the database to remove the ImapFolderPropertiesTable and
ImapMessagePropertiesTable, now that the database code is pure
IMAP.
When we support other messaging systems (such as POP3), those
subsystems will need to code their own database layers OR rely on
the IMAP schema and simply ignore the IMAP-specific fields.
ImapDB.Account fleshed out
ImapDB.Folder is commented out, however. Need to port next.
ImapDB.Folder fleshed out
MessageTable, MessageLocationTable, and AttachementTable are now
handled inside ImapDB.Folder.
chmod -x imap-db-database.vala
OutboxEmailIdentifier/Properties -> SmtpOutboxEmailIdentifier/Properties
Moved SmtpOutboxFolderRoot into its own source file
SmtpOutboxFolder ported to new database code
Move Engine implementations to ImapDB.
Integration and cleanup of new database code with main source
This commit performs the final integration steps to move Geary
completely over to the new database model. This also cleans out
the old SQLHeavy-based code and fixes a handful of small bugs that
were detected during basic test runs.
Moved Outbox to ImapDB
As the Outbox is tied to the database that ImapDB runs, move the
Outbox code into that folder.
Outbox fixes and better parameter checking
Bumped Database thread pool count and made them exclusive
My reasoning is that there may be a need for a lot of threads at
once (when a big batch of commands comes in, especially at
startup). If performance looks ok, we might consider relaxing
this later.
Squashed commit of many patches that merged Eric's outbox patch
as well as additional changes to upgrade the database rather than
require it be wiped and some refactoring suggested by the Outbox
implementation. Also updated Outbox to be fully atomic via
Transactions.
Before we were fetching the entire message body (including attachments) to get the
preview text. This patch now offers the ability to fetch a small (128 byte) preview
of the email.
Also, since this ticket is about speeding up performance, I've introduced NonblockingBatch,
which allows for multiple async operations to be executed in parallel easily. I've added
its use in a few places to speed up operations, including one that was causing the lag
in #3799, which is why this commit closes that ticket.
This adds support for retrieving partial header and body blocks straight from the email, and
therefore support to pull the References header from a message (which, for some reason, IMAP
doesn't support or include in the FETCH ENVELOPE command). This is necessary for email conversations (#3808).
This required a change to the database schema, meaning old databases will need to be blown
away before starting.
Needed to rethink storage strategies as I researched this and realized that a true scarce database -- where the database is sparsely populated both in columns and rows -- is not feasible due to IMAP's UID rules. The strategy now means that the database rows are contiguous from the highest (newest) message to the oldest *requested by the user*. This is a better situation than having to download the UID for the entire folder.
This commit adds support for IMAP-specific properties, of which UIDValidity is crucial toward completing #3805. The additional code is to integrate these tables into the SQLite Geary backend and to make sure this information is requested from the IMAP server.
NOTE: This commit changes the database schema. Old databases will need to be blown away before running.
This completes the heavy lifting of persisting messages locally. The strategy is that the local database may be sparsely populated, both in the availability of messages in a folder and the fields of a message that is partially stored. As data is pulled from the remote server it's always stored in the database. Future requests will always go to the database first, preventing unnecessary network traffic.
Also, this patch will detect when a message is stored in multiple folders on the server. The database uses soft links from the folder to the message, so the message is stored only once in the database. This technique relies heavily on the availability and validity of the Message-ID header, but we expect this to be reliable the vast majority of the time.
This iteration now stores headers locally and fetches them first before going to the network. Work done in the database to deal with IMAPisms. More work on the GMime bindings (couple of mistakes in prior commit).
Much of the API between the local and net stores had to be reworked for consistency as well as planning ahead for how messages will be retrieved and stored efficiently. This work also attempts to keep in mind that other mail sources (POP, etc.) may be required in the future, and hopefully can be added without major rework.
This large diff represents a growth of the architecture to persist IMAP data as its downloaded. When listing folders, a local database is consulted first to immediately feed to the caller. In the background, network calls fetch the "real" list. The two are collated for differences which are reported to the caller via signals, who are then responsible for updating the user interface appropriately. No other synchronization work is represented in this diff.
Note that this breaks functionality: when a folder is selected, no messages appear in the message list. Fixing this requires more work, and this patch was already large enough. It's ticketed here: #3741
