Lucene Full Text Search Indexing
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Requires Dovecot v2.1+ to work properly.

Dovecot builds only a single Lucene index for all mailboxes. The Lucene indexes
are stored in 'lucene-indexes/' directory under the mail root index directory
(e.g.'~/Maildir/lucene-indexes/').

Configuration
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---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
mail_plugins = $mail_plugins fts fts_lucene

plugin {
  fts = lucene
  #fts_lucene = <fts-lucene settings>
}
---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The fts-lucene settings include:

 * whitespace_chars=<chars>: List of characters that are translated to
   whitespace. You may want to use "@." so that e.g. in
   "'first.last@example.org'" it won't be treated as a single word, but rather
   you can search separately for "first", "last" and "example".
 * default_language=<lang>: Default stemming language to use for mails. The
   default is english. Requires that Dovecot is built with libstemmer, which
   also limits the languages that are supported.
 * textcat_conf=<path> textcat_dir=<path>: Is specified, enable guessing the
   stemming language for emails and search keywords. This is a little bit
   problematic in practice, since indexing and searching languages may differ
   and may not find even exact words because they stem differently.

(This file was created from the wiki on 2011-11-16 14:09)