Both Roundcube and Squirrelmail webmail cannot search for anything + cannot open many emails because there are more than 200, 000 emails in my Inbox
Shawn Heisey
elyograg at elyograg.org
Sun Apr 17 23:26:53 UTC 2022
On 4/17/2022 7:44 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> My Dovecot, Postfix, Roundcube and Squirrelmail were automatically
> installed, configured and deployed by Virtualmin web hosting control
> panel install scripts.
>
> How do I integrate Apache SOLR searching capability with Dovecot? Are
> there any excellent guides for this?
I have this in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf:
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota fts fts_solr
And in conf.d/90-plugin.conf, I have this:
plugin {
fts = solr
fts_solr = url=http://localhost:8983/solr/dovecot/
fts_autoindex = yes
fts_enforced = yes
}
I'm running a version of Solr that I built myself from the branch_8_11
source code -- 8.11.2-SNAPSHOT. I installed that with the service
installer script that it includes. I have been customizing the index
config, it started with the config and schema provided by dovecot, which
did work. I'm going to have some questions for those who write the
fts_solr plugin, and I still need to glance at the source code.
I am a committer on the Apache Solr project, so I do know a little bit
about Solr. :) I am not as competent in the C code that makes dovecot
as I am in the Java code that makes Solr. C was one of my first
languages, but I have not spent any real time with it in decades.
My install of dovecot has a grand total of 180079 messages in it right
now, 154K of which are in my mailbox. (I deleted the test folder I
created to test your problem out). If you can upgrade roundcube and
dovecot, plus incorporate Solr, things might work better for you.
I would suggest that you move most of the messages out of your inbox
into some kind of archival folder. Keep between 3 months and one year
of messages in the actual inbox so working with that folder is fast, and
you can visit the archive if you need to look at something older.
I have never liked dealing with do-everything packages like webmin or
virtualmin. I want to understand each of the pieces that make up the
whole, and be able to upgrade and reconfigure each piece independently
from the others. I find the configuration restraints of such a system
very limiting. Very often if you customize something yourself outside
the GUI, you lose the ability to administer it in the GUI, because it
doesn't know how to deal with the change. Or if you do change something
in the GUI afterwards, your customization might get deleted.
Thanks,
Shawn
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