Xapian searches of the body of an email

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

Quoting Egoitz Aurrekoetxea <egoitz at sarenet.es>:

> And, by the way....
>
> when using Squatter instead of Xapian as a search engine.... what do we
> really lost?. Just the fact of having a statistical worse results?. Is
> it Xapian faster than squat engine?.
>

I didn't test Xapian but the Squatter search index is not used in  
cyrus-imapd 3.0

See https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2598


> Sorry for having so many questions but... I suppose I don't have the
> implications of each one totally clear :)
>
> Cheers!
>
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> EGOITZ AURREKOETXEA
> Departamento de sistemas
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> egoitz at sarenet.es
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> El 07-01-2019 14:51, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea escribió:
>
>> Hi mate!
>>
>> This seems to take ages... I'm trying to figure the best way of  
>> implementing this and of clarifying concepts.... I'm running  
>> Squatter in rolling replication mode and exist the concept of  
>> conversations then. What is the exact role of each of them?.  
>> Squatter seems to index the mailbox but when something is not  
>> properly indexed instead of running Squatter you use  
>> ctl_conversations for reindexing some part again or...
>>
>> Thanks a lot!!
>>
>> ---
>>
>> EGOITZ AURREKOETXEA
>> Departamento de sistemas
>> 944 209 470
>> Parque Tecnológico. Edificio 103
>> 48170 Zamudio (Bizkaia)
>> egoitz at sarenet.es
>> www.sarenet.es [1]
>> Antes de imprimir este correo electrónico piense si es necesario hacerlo.
>>
>> El 07-01-2019 10:19, Sebastian Hagedorn escribió:
>> That sounds like the conversationsdb issue I was talking about.  
>> Have you tried these steps?
>>
>> ctl_conversationsdb -z USER
>> ctl_conversationsdb -b USER
>>
>> I have been testing Xapian searches. Have seen, it's not able to find
>> strings inside the body of the email. If I set in imap.conf
>> "search_fuzzy_always: 1" no content is displayed in the searches of a
>> Roundcube stock webmail. If I remove that config value from imap.conf
>> and restart services, then search results appear. Does Xapian not index
>> the body of emails?. Does Xapian, just index the headers?. But this
>> affirmation does not seem to be possible in my case too... as I have in
>> the config "search_index_headers: no".
>>
>> I'm using the following config :
>>
>> conversations: 1
>> search_engine: xapian
>> search_index_headers: no
>> search_batchsize: 8192
>> defaultsearchtier: t1
>> t1searchpartition-default: /expert/search
>> t1searchpartition-expert2: /expert2/search
>> t1searchpartition-expert3: /expert3/search
>>
>> Could anyone help me mates?.
>>
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>> Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZK)
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