Bug#921634: RFP: dovecot-xapian -- A straightforward and simple way to configure FTS plugin for Dovecot, leveraging the efforts by the Xapian.org team.

["Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>]

Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Leonard Lausen wrote:
> > * Package name    : dovecot-xapian
> >   Version         : 1.0
> >   Upstream Author : Joan Moreau <jom@grosjo.net>
> > * URL             : https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian
> > * License         : GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
> >   Programming Lang: C++
> >   Description     : A straightforward and simple way to configure FTS plugin for Dovecot, leveraging the efforts by the Xapian.org team.
> 
> Attached is a "minimum viable product" packaging of fts-xapian.
> I haven't tested it yet because it's past my bedtime.

I forgot to follow this up.

dovecot-fts-xapian has been running on my test system since August.

When you misconfigure dovecot (e.g. tell it to store indexes in a non-existent directory),
dovecot-fts-xapian will segfault the dovecot process that dlopened it, where it ought to signal an error "nicely".

Otherwise, it seems to Just Work, and is MUCH simpler than dovecot's solr backend (which I am running in production).