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blason78
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Unable to search through the mails

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Hi Folks,

I have Zimbra version Release 8.0.5_GA and I was facing disk space issue. Hence I went through multiple threads and found that that search index probably can be deleted and it creates again as the user starts searching through. The indices are located at /opt/zimbra/index/0/ per users mailboxID I guess.
hence I deleted the indices however it started building again but this is not able to search through the mails; the search doesn't return all the mails. Do I need to restart the Zimbra services after deleting indices?

Thanks and Regards,
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Re: Unable to search through the mails

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Your search unfortunately turned up incorrect information. Mailboxes are indexed according to a scheduler. No index, no searching.

Your version of Zimbra is long past end of life and contains several significant security vulnerabilities. I'd recommend you migrate to 8.8.15 (the currently supported version) as quickly as practicable.

All the best,
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Re: Unable to search through the mails

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I agree and yes we are planning for the upgrade. However, pertaining to my other query so mailboxes will be indexed again as per the scheduler?
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blason78 wrote:I agree and yes we are planning for the upgrade. However, pertaining to my other query so mailboxes will be indexed again as per the scheduler?
Not sure as I can't recall anyone ever just wholesale deleting index files like that.

I would recommend running "zmprov rim <user@domain.tld>" one at a time for each of your users' mailboxes to rebuild the indexes from scratch--when you have the space to do so.

Hope that helps,
Mark
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Re: Unable to search through the mails

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L. Mark Stone wrote:
blason78 wrote:I agree and yes we are planning for the upgrade. However, pertaining to my other query so mailboxes will be indexed again as per the scheduler?
Not sure as I can't recall anyone ever just wholesale deleting index files like that.

I would recommend running "zmprov rim <user@domain.tld>" one at a time for each of your users' mailboxes to rebuild the indexes from scratch--when you have the space to do so.

Hope that helps,
Mark
Correct that has resolved the issue. However, its ok for certain users if they have lost the search indices.
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