[OT] Re: What kind of search response time are you setting with solr full text search?

[Steve Dondley]

On 2021-08-25 04:05 PM, Steve Dondley wrote:
>> The search time was no better with it on than off.
>> 
>> So I'm thinking I got something misconfigured somewhere. It seems IMAP
>> may not be using solr to fetch results. But this would be odd since I
>> definitely do see a big improvements in times with fts plugins turned
>> on when using roundcube.
> 
> OK, I'm finally getting somewhere. Found this lead here:
> https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2012-February/081514.html
> 
> "doveadm fts optimize" throws an error:
> 
> doveadm(root): Error: Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID
> (see mail_uid setting)
> 
> 
> Checking /var/log/mail.err, I see a ton of these entries:
> 
> 83353 Aug 25 14:53:22 email dovecot: imap(s)<26536><gJ1Iw2bKKLh/AAAB>:
> Error: fts_solr: received invalid uid '
> 83354 Aug 25 14:53:22 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
> 83355 Aug 25 14:58:05 email dovecot: imap(s)<26637><Awma1GbKprh/AAAB>:
> Error: fts_solr: received invalid uid '
> 83356 Aug 25 14:58:05 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
> 83357 Aug 25 15:26:58 email dovecot: imap(s)<27217><TF0qOGfKort/AAAB>:
> Error: fts_solr: received invalid uid '
> 83358 Aug 25 15:26:58 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
> 83359 Aug 25 15:27:11 email dovecot: imap(s)<27217><TF0qOGfKort/AAAB>:
> Error: fts_solr: received invalid uid '
> 83360 Aug 25 15:27:11 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
> 83361 Aug 25 15:27:36 email dovecot: imap(s)<27217><TF0qOGfKort/AAAB>:
> Error: fts_solr: received invalid uid '
> 83362 Aug 25 15:27:36 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
> 
> I think this will be nailed once I figure out this issue.

And it looks like I'm running into a major bug in the slightly dated 
version of dovecot debian uses:

https://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg78825.html