KOPANO-SEARCH(8)

💖 KOPANO-SEARCH(8) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair 🪑 because we're talking about kopano-search — aka the Kopano Indexed Search Service, aka the glow-up your mailbox search has been praying for. this is page 8 of the Kopano Core user reference, and yes, it's giving main character energy ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kopano-search — the Kopano Indexed Search Service. that's it, that's the vibe 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

kopano-search

literally just run it, no cap 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the kopano-search daemon is out here indexing all the messages for all the users in the kopano-server. and why do we care? because indexing messages greatly enhances the search performance of the kopano-server. it's the difference between "wait why is search taking forever 😭" and "found it instantly, obsessed 👑".

after it starts up, the search daemon will continuously update the store index files, and it will keep listening for connections on the configured TCP port and/or Unix socket so it can handle search requests coming from kopano-server(8). she's always on, always listening, always updating. multitasking queen fr fr 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

the Kopano search program takes the following configuration options:

• --config, -c file — tell it where the configuration file lives. default: /etc/kopano/search.cfg.
• --foreground, -F — run in the foreground. normally the kopano-search process will daemonize and run in the background, but this keeps her right there in front of you, no disappearing act 🙈.
• --server-socket, -s path — connect to the storage server through path, e.g. file:///path/to/socket. default: file:///var/run/kopano/server.sock.
• --reindex user/store — remove the current index of the given user or store and start making a new index immediately. use this in combination with -u or -S to specify one or more users or stores. 🌈

heads up bestie: the kopano-search daemon must already be running on the same machine for this to work. no daemon, no reindex, periodt.

when you invoke it with no options at all, the kopano-search daemon will search for a configuration file in /etc/kopano/search.cfg. if no configuration file is found, default values are used. see kopano-search.cfg(5) for all the configuration options and their default values — she's thorough 💖

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

starting the kopano-search daemon with an alternative configuration:

kopano-search  -c  /path/to/search.cfg

you may also use the init.d scripts:

/etc/init.d/kopano-search [start| stop| restart| reload]

look at you, customizing your config path like a boss 😌🔥

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

written by Kopano. 🫶

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

kopano-server(8), kopano-search.cfg(5)

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and that's the whole page, babe! 💖 this was Kopano 8, from November 2016 — go forth and index, and may your searches always be fast ⭐🧚‍♀️