On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, at 11:56 AM, Chis Walker wrote:
I think you may be right about the search indices being borked. I tried a server search on a "working" client and got back nothing. I'm going to start digging through the manpages and documentation for any search-related settings and see what I can find.
I think in the very olden days you could get away with just never configuring search indexing. If someone did a SEARCH, it would be potentially very slow without indexes, but it would still work. I think the main reason you would configure search back then was to make it faster, but if your users expect search to be slow and don't complain when it inevitably is, maybe you never even think about it.
As I understand it, the search is much better these days, but unlike before it can only see what's indexed, there is no slow fallback.
Cheers,
ellie
