Hi,
I've seen that latest Dovecot has the ability to use the Apache Tika
Server to extract metadata from attachments.
That is a pretty useful feature and looks to be an improvement over piping
the attachment through a shellscript as done with fts_decoder.
Having this feature enabled though I sometimes do see the situation that
the tika service does not reply in time and it looks like the whole FTS
transaction gets aborted:
dovecot: indexer-worker(eggs at localhost): Error: fts_tika: PUT
http://localhost:9998/tika/ failed: Request timed out (Request queued
60.145 secs ago, 1 attempts in 60.134 secs, 60.034 in http ioloop, 0.000
in other ioloops, connected 1739.235 secs ago)
dovecot: indexer-worker(eggs at localhost): Error: Mailbox INBOX.junk: Mail
search failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more
information. [2017-10-09 03:46:09]
dovecot: indexer-worker(eggs at bawue.de): Error: Mailbox INBOX.junk:
Transaction commit failed: FTS transaction commit failed: transaction
context (attempted to index 12084 messages (UIDs 2..17850))
Is that actually sensible behavior? I would consider attachment metadata
to be nice to have, but not necessarily mandatory. So if the attachment
indexing fails, I would hope that at least the mailtext got indexed. But
it seems like we abort the whole transaction.
Am I reading the error log correctly?
cheers,
Andreas
