Re: Cyrus-imapd 3.0.7 xapian searching setup

On 8 Sep 2021, at 15:12, [email protected] wrote:

> Although squatter is creating index and everything looks ok in /var/cyrus/search,
> imapd is not accessing any index or database and according to strace monitoring which
> i did, it accesses all mail files and not only the one containing my searched string or at least smaller set of files.
> I am creating 1 mailbox user/joe and delivering 1000 mails containing short random sets of words.
> I triggered search with imtest and commands:
> a SELECT "user/joe"
> b SEARCH TEXT "monday"
>
> Can anybody please explain to me, in what circumstances is the index supposed to work or what
> am i doing wrong?
> Thanks for any help or information.

Xapian is by default only used for fuzzy searches. In later versions you can override that behavior with

search_fuzzy_always: 1

but AFAIR that switch isn’t in 3.0.7.
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