[Dovecot] Howto reindex with solr?

2012-04-17 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
Hi, I am currently testing a 2.1 dovecot setup with fts-solr. Search speed is simply amazing. I decided to try to delete and rebuild the solr indexes, but i can't seem to rebuild them thru dovecot. At first, when telnetting to the imap server, the search initially built the index, and then

[Dovecot] Single instance storage

2012-03-07 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
I have read most of the doc on the dovecot website, and couldn't find any info on the single instance storage feature, so I'm posting my questions here. - Are these 3 parameters the only one necessary for single instance storage? I cannot find any doc on this feature on the website; is there

[Dovecot] mdbox + gzip and rsync

2012-03-06 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
Hi, After reading the following paragraph from the dovecot doc, I've been wondering how it would affect rsync (when combined with gzip): Expunging a message only decreases the message's refcount. The space is later freed in purge step. This is typically done in a nightly cronjob when there's

Re: [Dovecot] testing fts-solr?

2012-02-27 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so But nothing indicating that solr_plugin is being used. Any idea? i'd really like to be able to clearly see that I'm using solr. Regards, -JD On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 18:26 -0500, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote

Re: [Dovecot] testing fts-solr?

2012-02-27 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Jean-Daniel Beaubien jd.beaub...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I had to fix a few things. First of all, I had to declare mail_plugins = fts fts_solr in global file (dovecot.conf). After doing that, running doveadm fts optimize stopped giving me errors. I ran

[Dovecot] testing fts-solr?

2012-02-26 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
hi everyone, However, how can I verify that solr is working properly? Background: - I'm trying to setup 2.1 with fts_solr and eventually test maildir/mdbox. - I used the following webpage as reference to setup solr:

[Dovecot] maildir vs mdbox

2012-01-28 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
Hi, I am planning on running on test between maildir and mdbox to see which is a better fit for my use case. And I'm just looking for general advice/recommendation. I will post any results I obtain here. Important question: I have multiple users hitting the same email account at the same time.

Re: [Dovecot] maildir vs mdbox

2012-01-28 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
recommend i start testing with (mdbox_rotate_size and mdbox_rotate_interval). -JD On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 28.1.2012, at 17.59, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: I am planning on running on test between maildir and mdbox to see which is a better fit

Re: [Dovecot] maildir vs mdbox

2012-01-28 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 28.1.2012, at 18.13, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: Considering my use case (small number of accounts but alot of emails per account, and I should add that they are mostly small emails, most under 5k, alot under 30k) what

Re: [Dovecot] Persistence of UIDs

2012-01-25 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 25.1.2012, at 5.22, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: I have a question concerning UIDs. How persistant are they? With Dovecot persistent enough. But as Michael said, check UIDVALIDITY. I am thinking about building some form

Re: [Dovecot] Persistence of UIDs

2012-01-25 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 25.1.2012, at 15.34, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: I am thinking about building some form of webmail specialized for some specific business purpose and I am thinking of building a sort of cache in a DB by storing

[Dovecot] Persistence of UIDs

2012-01-24 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
Hi everyone, I have a question concerning UIDs. How persistant are they? I am thinking about building some form of webmail specialized for some specific business purpose and I am thinking of building a sort of cache in a DB by storing the email addr, date, subject and UID for quick lookups and