Tickets :: Comment on [#14810] Server side email searching through ActiveSync doesn't work

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Comment	> "I'm not sure what you mean by an "old syntax" and you don't specify > what your configuration actually was.... " > > In my comment I mentioned that I was using the format: > > servers['secure-imap'] ( ... ) > > The current horde/imp/config/backends.php sample config file only > lists two types of syntax for IMAP backends: > > servers['imap'] ( ... ) > > and > > servers['advanced'] ( ... ) > > So, I can only assume that 'secure-imap' syntax has been deprecated > at some point in time. > > I have turned debugging all the way up in Dovecot, and when using > 'secure-imap', no SEARCH commands are sent to Dovecot. I have also > enabled full text indexing in Dovecot, and searching initiated over a > telnet session to Dovecot using the 'SEARCH BODY' imap command are > now down from 5+ minutes on a large mailbox, to less than one second. > In spite of all this, server side email searching through ActiveSync > still didn't work and didn't send any SEARCH commands to the imap > server. > > "My guess is the search was timing out looking for the IMAP server" > > If you mean that Horde couldn't connect to the IMAP server at all, I > don't think that was the case, as emails were downloading fine on the > phone and I could open them, send emails etc. > > If you mean that the search was timing out waiting for a reply to the > SEARCH command, again, I don't think that is the case, as no SEARCH > command was showing up in Dovecot logs, and, as mentioned above, > after enabling FTS indexing, the search results in Dovecot would have > taken less than a second. > > What I can only guess was happening (but this would need confirming > by looking at the code) is that the 'secure-imap' syntax in > backends.local.php was interpreted by Horde as a server of simple > imap type (not advanced) - and somehow this doesn't support server > side email searches. Or maybe something else was going on. > > If the above is correct, what I think should happen is for Horde to > detect that the selected IMAP back-end doesn't support server-side > searching (because it is of simple type, not advanced) - and output > some warnings or errors in the Horde log, when ActiveSync devices > attempt to use search commands > > Also, if it is correct that the 'secure-imap' syntax has been > deprecated, again, maybe Horde should flag this in the logs - instead > of silently accepting it (if that is the case). > > Please find below the backend configuration which I was using BEFORE > - which wasn't passing SEARCH commands to the imap server: > > $servers['secure-imap'] = array( > 'disabled' => false, > 'name' => 'my_imap_config', > 'hostspec' => 'localhost', > 'hordeauth' => 'full', > 'protocol' => 'imap', > 'port' => 993, > 'secure' => 'ssl', > 'maildomain' => 'my_mail_domain.com', > 'smtphost' => 'localhost', > 'smtpport' => 587, > 'acl' => false, > 'cache' => false, > );
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