fts-solr

fts-solr-plugin

fts_solr

Example config to use full-text search with Apache Solr:

mail_plugins = $mail_plugins fts fts_solr

plugin {
  fts = solr
  fts_solr = url=http://solr.example.org:8983/solr/ debug soft_commit=yes batch_size=1000
}

fts_solr supports the following options:

• url=<solr url>: Required base URL for Solr. (remember to add your core name if using solr 7+ : “/solr/dovecot/”). The default URL for Solr 7+ is https://localhost:8983/solr/dovecot/
• debug: Enable HTTP debugging. Writes to debug log.

New in version 2.3.6.

• rawlog_dir=<directory>: For debugging, store HTTP exchanges between Dovecot and Solr in this directory.
• batch_size : Configure the number of mails sent in single requests to Solr, default is 1000.
  • with fts_autoindex=yes, each new mail gets separately indexed on arrival, so batch_size only matters when doing the initial indexing of a mailbox.
  • with fts_autoindex=no, new mails don’t get indexed on arrival, so batch_size is used when indexing gets triggered.
• soft_commit=yes|no: Control whether new mails are immediately searchable via Solr, default to yes. When using no, it’s important to set autoCommit or autoSoftCommit time in solrconfig.xml so mails eventually become searchable.

Soft commits

If soft commits are enabled, dovecot will perform a soft commit to SOLR at the end of transaction. This has the benefit that search results are immediately available. You can also enable automatic commits in SOLR config, with

<autoSoftCommit>
  <maxTime>60000</maxTime>
</autoSoftCommit>

or setting it in solrconfig.xml with

${solr.autoSoftCommit.maxTime:60000}

You can also set up a cron job for performing the commits manually.

See: Solr Full Text Search Indexing