1673928 - TBird "search on server" doesn't -- NO comm with backend IMAP/SOLR; appears to be local-only search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 546925

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[pgnet.dev]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0

Steps to reproduce:

i run

    TBird 78.4.0 /linx, from upstream

imap backend is

    dovecot --version
            2.3.11.3 (502c39af9)

with search backend plugin

    fts_solr

enabled & functional, connecting to a solr backend

    solr-spec        8.6.3
    solr-impl        8.6.3 e001c2221812a0ba9e9378855040ce72f93eced4 - jasongerlowski - 2020-10-03 18:12:03
    lucene-spec        8.6.3
    lucene-impl        8.6.3 e001c2221812a0ba9e9378855040ce72f93eced4 - jasongerlowski - 2020-10-03 18:04:00
    JVM Runtime        Red Hat, Inc. OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 15 15+36

solr scanning/indexing works, as expected, on inbound mail receipt, or manual scan.

cmd line search of mail store works; access/retrieval from solr indexes is logged.

Roundcube webclient search on any header/body also works; again, solr access is logged.

Search from within Tbird -- whether of headers/body -- with "Search on Server" enabled doesn't exec on the server at all.

There's no log traces of any TBird search-related traffic on either the IMAP or SOLR backends; tcpdump verifies it.

attempt to trace IMAP stream in TBird,

    NSPR_LOG_MODULES="IMAP:5" NSPR_LOG_FILE="/some/path/to/tbird_imap_log.txt" thunderbird

launches TBird with no errors, but logs nothing to that file.

the 'middle' of this thread @

    https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2020-October/120273.html

is where the "Tbird doesn't search on server" realizations start.

there's a very old TBird vs IMAP server-search bug referenced,

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tb-enterprise/TuUXyQLBB1o

i've followed it -- and a number of related bugs -- and have yet to find any indication that the problem was addressed/fixed.

Comment 1

[pgnet.dev]

fwiw, the desired goal-state is:

option to turn off / disable ALL local indexing
option to configure ALL search to be ONLY @ specified, remote target server -- e.g., @ solr-indexed mail store

Comment 2

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

A fix for this is upcoming.