Hi Aki,
sorry for hijacking this thread, but when you do a SEARCH at least there's an 'Indexing update' being returned from the server.
If the mailbox is not indexed and you do a SORT it just hangs with no update whatsoever until it completes.
I think it would be beneficial to update the client on the indexing progress when doing SORT as well..
On Monday, 01/03/2021 at 12:57 Aki Tuomi wrote:
On 01/03/2021 15:30 van der Kamp, John wrote:
Hi,
When a user is doing a search, and the data is not indexed, then a search can take a very long time. It seems that search process is uninterruptable. The IMAP connection gets a status message with an ETA every so often, but an administrator on the server cannot stop it. Any SIGTERM or doveadm kick is ignored. Also, when the client times out (it seems clients are not seeing the ETA as a reason to keep the connection open) and the client disconnects is this search process continuing, even though any write to the socket would return an error.
I believe the server is stuck in this loop: https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/master/src/lib-storage/index/index-sear...
Somehow the server needs to check for disconnected clients and let the session be kicked from the server too. You probably know better what to do about this then me.
John
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Hi!
One solution would be to use FTS. While it does not make search any more terminatable, it would increase the likelihood of search returning in few seconds.
Aki