Bug 1902781

Summary:	Broken full text search in cyrus - please repackage with --enable-xapian
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	g.danti
Component:	cyrus-imapd	Assignee:	Tomas Korbar <tkorbar>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	František Hrdina <fhrdina>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	8.2	CC:	daniel-oliveira, fhrdina, g.danti, hagedorn, jgamba, jorton, lmiksik, tkorbar
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	AutoVerified, Triaged
Target Release:	8.0
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	cyrus-imapd-3.0.7-23.el8	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2021-11-09 18:50:17 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1918908
Bug Blocks:	1914735, 1969483, 2002730

Description g.danti 2020-11-30 16:23:05 UTC

Description of problem:
RedHat 8.x ships with cyrus-imapd version 3.0.x which has broken squat full-text search as per this github issue: https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2598

The official recommendation is to use xapian to replace squat seach; however, the shipping packages is compiled *without* xapian support. Please repackage it enabling xapian search (--eneble-xapian).

Alternatively, please help upstream to fix squat indexes.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.0.7

How reproducible:
a) install cyrus-imapd, enable squat indexing, run squatter and try a full-text search: it will not be served by reading the squat file, rather a linear search will be issued (ie: no indexes are used).
b) disable squat and enable xapian, then run squatter - nothing will be really done (no index will be created) and searches remain slow.

Steps to Reproduce:
As above

Actual results:
Full text search are not working, resulting in linear search between all messages

Expected results:
An index (either squat or xapian) should be used to accelerate full text search

Additional info:

Comment 1 Pavel Zhukov 2020-12-01 05:38:58 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue to us. We appreciate the feedback and use reports such as this one to guide our efforts at improving our products. That being said, this bug tracking system is not a mechanism for requesting support, and we are not able to guarantee the timeliness or suitability of a resolution.

If this issue is critical or in any way time sensitive, please raise a ticket through the regular Red Hat support channels to ensure it receives the proper attention and prioritization to assure a timely resolution.

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Comment 3 g.danti 2020-12-01 07:37:57 UTC

Hi Pavel, this is not a support request.

The shipping cyrus-imapd packages has broken full text search because:
a) the squat index is not used;
b) xapian in not compiled it.

This means that anyone using cyrus on RHEL is going to suffer from the slow search speed, irrespective of its configuration.
Regards.

Comment 4 Daniel Oliveira 2020-12-17 19:15:51 UTC

Gentlemen, I have the same problem and another one with the RHEL 8 cyrus-imapd, I opened support case nº 02826543.

Comment 30 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 18:50:17 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (cyrus-imapd bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:4301