#!/bin/bash # # IMAP search with xapian # -------------------------------- # # By default dovecot uses its own Squat search index that has awful performance # on large mailboxes and is obsolete. Dovecot 2.1+ has support for using Lucene # internally but this didn't make it into the Ubuntu packages. Solr uses too # much memory. Same goes for elasticsearch. fts xapian might be a good match # for mail-in-a-box. See https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian source setup/functions.sh # load our functions source /etc/mailinabox.conf # load global vars # Install packages and basic configuation # --------------------------------------- echo "Installing fts-xapian..." apt_install libxapian30 # Update the dovecot plugin configuration # # Break-imap-search makes search work the way users expect, rather than the way # the IMAP specification expects. tools/editconf.py /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf \ mail_plugins="fts fts_xapian" # Install cronjobs to keep FTS up to date. hide_output install -m 755 conf/cron/miab_dovecot /etc/cron.daily/ if [ ! -f /usr/lib/dovecot/decode2text.sh ]; then cp -f /usr/share/doc/dovecot-core/examples/decode2text.sh /usr/lib/dovecot fi cat > /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin-fts.conf << EOF; plugin { plugin = fts fts_xapian fts = xapian fts_xapian = partial=3 full=20 verbose=0 fts_autoindex = yes fts_enforced = yes fts_autoindex_exclude = \Trash fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Junk fts_decoder = decode2text // To index attachements } service indexer-worker { vsz_limit = 2G // or above (or 0 if you have rather large memory usable on your server, which is preferred for performance) } service decode2text { executable = script /usr/lib/dovecot/decode2text.sh user = dovecot unix_listener decode2text { mode = 0666 } } EOF restart_service dovecot # Kickoff building the index # Per doveadm-fts manpage: Scan what mails exist in the full text search index # and compare those to what actually exist in mailboxes. # This removes mails from the index that have already been expunged and makes # sure that the next doveadm index will index all the missing mails (if any). doveadm fts rescan -A # Adds unindexed files to the fts database # * `-q`: Queues the indexing to be run by indexer process. (will background the indexing) # * `-A`: All users # * `'*'`: All folders doveadm index -q -A '*'