On 26 Apr 2016, at 19:29, Ricardo Branco <ricardo@wenn.com> wrote:

thanks, the results are certianly better

this error shows, i suspect it is fine and just a side affect of the override to turn off solr

doveadm(user@domain.com): Error: fts: Failed to initialize backend '': Unknown backend

Doesn't really matter, but fixed: https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/4ad29d803f7383a553efcc6f6663dbec89b48...

Timo Sirainen wrote on 26/04/2016 16:43:

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On 26 Apr 2016, at 18:31, Ricardo Branco <ricardo@wenn.com> wrote:

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Is there a way when using doveadm to search a users mailbox to disable using solr plugin (without changing config file).

We have found that solr does not work well with certain search types and reverting to non solr searching works much better. doveadm -o plugin/fts= search ...