Searching with Contexual AI
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Margo Pärnaku
Agree. Missive search is very slow and often you can't even find emails by sender name or domain, let alone content. So the search should be heavily tuned and AI should give it a good boost.
Simon Mayerhofer
Margo Pärnaku really depends on the mail server. We had this issue with IMAP servers. Here is an answer I got from the missive team back in 2021, which improved our search speed tremendously:
"It’s not unusual for IMAP servers to be slow at searching email bodies, even if the server’s specs aren’t bad and it isn’t busy.
The IMAP extension we know that can significantly improve search is SEARCH=FUZZY:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6203
Unfortunately few independent email providers support it, at least by default. The only one we know is Fastmail. It offers extremely fast search, comparable to Gmail and Office 365.
A few other web hosting / webmail providers run installations of Dovecot that support SEARCH=FUZZY but those are rare. Dovecot is the most popular IMAP software. It supports SEARCH=FUZZY since version 2.1, but the extension must be manually enabled:
https://imapwiki.org/Specs
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/protocols/imap_server/
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/
These links are the relevant documentation pages you could send to your hosting provider as reference."
Mihaela Mindicanu, RCIC, Adm.A.
I agree that there is an issue with the search. When I need to search something properly, I have to go back to my old platform...
Russell Kohn
yes!!
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Hayle Schmidt
Yes Please!
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Lucas Lappe
The search is so bad in missive. It is my #1 complaint with the product and has caused a number of our teams members to churn off the product
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Noel Espinosa
YES PLS
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Rachel Davidson
Me! I have the hardest time finding emails, was way easier in gmail! Love missive so much but finding the email based on keywords I really struggle with!!