Only INBOX is searched when using gmail with dovecot FTS and solr

[Sami Ketola]

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-folder.html <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 at 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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