Only INBOX is searched when using gmail with dovecot FTS and solr
Hi,
I am using https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver to setup my mailserver and added solr for full-text search. Nearly everything is working as expected. But I have a problem with the full-text search, as I have a lot of folders in my mailbox and I just can't find any mail in any of these folders except INBOX when I search with the Gmail android app.
After analyzing the logs, I assume, that the bug is in the Gmail app, as it is only searching in the INBOX folder. I searched a bit and found some reports of other users confirming that. As this "design decision" (or bug) is quite old, I assume that Google won't fix it. But as many people are using Gmail, I assume that there must be a way to search all folders with Gmail. Sadly, I haven't found any possibility yet.
As a workaround one may put a proxy in between and simply remove the "+box:123" filter from the path (e.g. with a small regex). With that, solr will return all found mails from that user, regardless of the folder. This may be a quite simple, but very dirty hack.
Hence, I hope that you guys know a better way, a good way to overcome this issue and enable all Gmail users to search for email in all folders.
Best regards,
Marcel
Any ideas on this? I am sure that I can't be the only one having issues with the search function while using Gmail.
Hi,
I am using https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver to setup my mailserver and added solr for full-text search. Nearly everything is working as expected. But I have a problem with the full-text search, as I have a lot of folders in my mailbox and I just can't find any mail in any of these folders except INBOX when I search with the Gmail android app.
After analyzing the logs, I assume, that the bug is in the Gmail app, as it is only searching in the INBOX folder. I searched a bit and found some reports of other users confirming that. As this "design decision" (or bug) is quite old, I assume that Google won't fix it. But as many people are using Gmail, I assume that there must be a way to search all folders with Gmail. Sadly, I haven't found any possibility yet.
As a workaround one may put a proxy in between and simply remove the "+box:123" filter from the path (e.g. with a small regex). With that, solr will return all found mails from that user, regardless of the folder. This may be a quite simple, but very dirty hack.
Hence, I hope that you guys know a better way, a good way to overcome this issue and enable all Gmail users to search for email in all folders.
Best regards,
Marcel
Hi,
IMAP SEARCH is only applied to SELECTed folder. If you want to do searches across all folders you need to implement Virtual/All folder like in this example for App Suite:
https://documentation.open-xchange.com/7.10.5/ui/features/all-messages-folde... <https://documentation.open-xchange.com/7.10.5/ui/features/all-messages-folder.html>
Sami
On 12. Apr 2021, at 23.01, Marcel <hi-dovecot@mcarle.io> wrote:
Any ideas on this? I am sure that I can't be the only one having issues with the search function while using Gmail.
Hi,
I am using https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver to setup my mailserver and added solr for full-text search. Nearly everything is working as expected. But I have a problem with the full-text search, as I have a lot of folders in my mailbox and I just can't find any mail in any of these folders except INBOX when I search with the Gmail android app.
After analyzing the logs, I assume, that the bug is in the Gmail app, as it is only searching in the INBOX folder. I searched a bit and found some reports of other users confirming that. As this "design decision" (or bug) is quite old, I assume that Google won't fix it. But as many people are using Gmail, I assume that there must be a way to search all folders with Gmail. Sadly, I haven't found any possibility yet.
As a workaround one may put a proxy in between and simply remove the "+box:123" filter from the path (e.g. with a small regex). With that, solr will return all found mails from that user, regardless of the folder. This may be a quite simple, but very dirty hack.
Hence, I hope that you guys know a better way, a good way to overcome this issue and enable all Gmail users to search for email in all folders.
Best regards,
Marcel
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hi-dovecot＠mcarle.io
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Marcel
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Sami Ketola