FTS search used / useful on an IMAP proxy?
We are preparing an IMAP proxy based on dovecot-2.2.22, basic proxy functionality is already working and I’m trying to understand if having the FTS service configured on the dovecot *proxy* would be of any use.
I do suspect it would be useless, I guess dovecot in imap proxy mode just forwards any command to the backend and does not bother to do anything about it, but I’m failing to find a definitive answer in the documentation. If I am guessing correctly, an fts service would only be useful if configured and working on the actual backend.
Can anyone clarify my doubts?
thank you,
Luca Lesinigo
On June 28, 2016 at 7:07 AM Luca Lesinigo <luca@lm-net.it> wrote: We are preparing an IMAP proxy based on dovecot-2.2.22, basic proxy functionality is already working and I’m trying to understand if having the FTS service configured on the dovecot *proxy* would be of any use. I do suspect it would be useless, I guess dovecot in imap proxy mode just forwards any command to the backend and does not bother to do anything about it, but I’m failing to find a definitive answer in the documentation. If I am guessing correctly, an fts service would only be useful if configured and working on the actual backend.
FTS only makes sense on backend, where the search would be executed.
michael
On 28 Jun 2016, at 16:07, Luca Lesinigo luca@lm-net.it wrote:
We are preparing an IMAP proxy based on dovecot-2.2.22, basic proxy functionality is already working and I’m trying to understand if having the FTS service configured on the dovecot *proxy* would be of any use.
I do suspect it would be useless, I guess dovecot in imap proxy mode just forwards any command to the backend and does not bother to do anything about it, but I’m failing to find a definitive answer in the documentation. If I am guessing correctly, an fts service would only be useful if configured and working on the actual backend.
Can anyone clarify my doubts?
If you want to use doveadm fts optimize/rescan commands via doveadm proxy, you need to load fts plugin on the proxy to get the commands. But otherwise there's no reason for it.
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Luca Lesinigo
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Michael Slusarz
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Timo Sirainen