Enable "Meilisearch" for local chat search

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Hi everyone.

I’m running LibreChat and I would like to enable the internal Search feature which requires Meilisearch.

According to the LibreChat documentation, search functionality depends on Meilisearch running and being connected via environment variables (SEARCH=true, MEILI_HOST, MEILI_MASTER_KEY, etc.).

For my knowledge is little bit complicated to put hands on those steps (eg. open 7700 port). Also, I didn't understand if settings are persistent or not.

Has anyone here already enabled Meilisearch?

I've another question about privacy: when enabling the search feature with Meilisearch, will conversations be indexed and stored fully locally inside my Cloudron/Meilisearch instance, or is there any data being sent to Meilisearch servers?

Any guidance would be very much appreciated

Thanks