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    What's coming in 6.0 (take 2)

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    • jdaviescoates
      jdaviescoates @avatar1024 last edited by

      @avatar1024 I'm not too bothered by that but yeah it's a bit mad they are still on 16.04

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      • ei8fdb
        ei8fdb @girish last edited by

        @girish Absolutely. I wasn't suggesting to implement it "now-now". More the case of suggesting to gather data earlier (could be done at any time really), so that when it came to thinking about implementation, you had some data to base decisions on.

        To get enough data I'd suggest running the research for ~ 2-3 weeks. Analysis would be much quicker ~days. I'll happy to help with both.

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        • girish
          girish Staff last edited by girish

          Another brief update:

          • We added auth wall functionality that apps without any notion of login can use
          • i18n is mostly done, just lots of testing before we let translators do their work. @nebulon can give some updates on how the language is selected etc.
          • We added httpPaths functionality so that @MooCloud_Matt can work on his OLS app. Also, see https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3755/apache-ols-and-nginx-custom-benchmarks/5
          • Reworked a lot of the internal dns stuff, so that we can have apps as dns servers (ad blocker apps)
          • solr fts search was merged today.

          Looks like we are set for a release next week!

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          • doodlemania2
            doodlemania2 App Dev @girish last edited by

            @girish Did the TURN server API auth stuff make it in for Nextcloud high performance backend'ness?

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            • nebulon
              nebulon Staff @doodlemania2 last edited by nebulon

              @doodlemania2 unfortunately not, in fact I forgot about it 😕

              I have put it now into milestone for 6.1 so this does not happen again. Sorry about that.

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              • jdaviescoates
                jdaviescoates @girish last edited by

                @girish said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                solr fts search was merged today.

                This is great... but I'm intrigued to how exactly we'll be able to take advantage of it e.g. to search email/ files?

                Will Cloudron Roundcube/ Rainloop/ Sogo, Nextcloud Mail somehow automagically take advantage of solr? or what?

                I guess the same applies to Nextcloud files too - will search files on there somehow benefit from the power of solr?

                Thanks!

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                • girish
                  girish Staff @jdaviescoates last edited by

                  @jdaviescoates said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                  Will Cloudron Roundcube/ Rainloop/ Sogo, Nextcloud Mail somehow automagically take advantage of solr? or what?

                  That's the idea, yes. To keep excitement in control, from my testing, the fts has real benefits only if you lots of email (like say 2GB and more). You also need a lot of RAM to run solr (like 3GB). The feature is turned off by default for this reason.

                  I guess the same applies to Nextcloud files too - will search files on there somehow benefit from the power of solr?

                  Unfortunately, no. I think there was this nextcloud app called nextant back in the day which used solr. That app was however deprecated and they moved to this fulltextsearch app. The fulltextsearch app can have multiple backends but afaik there is only an elastic search backend (someone has to write a solr backend).

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                  • jdaviescoates
                    jdaviescoates @girish last edited by

                    @girish said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                    That's the idea, yes. To keep excitement in control, from my testing, the fts has real benefits only if you lots of email (like say 2GB and more). You also need a lot of RAM to run solr (like 3GB). The feature is turned off by default for this reason.

                    OK, thanks.

                    I guess part of what I'm asking is does having solr enabled some allow for using some Gmail-style search operators like from: to: in:sent has:attachment etc?

                    I'm guessing perhaps not and that such things would need to be built in/ added to the webmail clients themselves? But I'm unclear 🙂

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                    • girish
                      girish Staff @jdaviescoates last edited by

                      @jdaviescoates said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                      I'm guessing perhaps not and that such things would need to be built in/ added to the webmail clients themselves? But I'm unclear

                      Right, those features like operators have to come from mail clients themselves. Note that solr is actually not adding anything new to what is already there. It's just making search faster internally by having an index.

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                      • jdaviescoates
                        jdaviescoates @girish last edited by

                        @girish said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                        Unfortunately, no. I think there was this nextcloud app called nextant back in the day which used solr. That app was however deprecated and they moved to this fulltextsearch app. The fulltextsearch app can have multiple backends but afaik there is only an elastic search backend (someone has to write a solr backend).

                        Looks like someone started to make one, but there hasn't been any updates since Jun 2019 😕

                        https://github.com/rearden-logic-inc/fulltextsearch_solr

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                        • jdaviescoates
                          jdaviescoates @girish last edited by jdaviescoates

                          @girish said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                          Right, those features like operators have to come from mail clients themselves. Note that solr is actually not adding anything new to what is already there. It's just making search faster internally by having an index.

                          Thanks. I so wish there were better open webmail clients. Mailpile does most of what I want but development has seemingly largely stalled 😕

                          Roundcube at least has these:

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                          • marcusquinn
                            marcusquinn @jdaviescoates last edited by

                            @jdaviescoates 👍 for Roundcube, the others didn't pass my short attention span for acceptable daily-drivers 😬

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                            • marcusquinn
                              marcusquinn @marcusquinn last edited by

                              @marcusquinn Nothing to do with 6.0 but since webmail distracted, I think EspoCRM is worth a mention as a webmail client, which I'm intending to give a whirl soon. Don't know how performant the search will be in that but will share feedback as I do.

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                              • jdaviescoates
                                jdaviescoates @marcusquinn last edited by

                                @marcusquinn said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                                @jdaviescoates for Roundcube, the others didn't pass my short attention span for acceptable daily-drivers

                                It does seem the best of bad bunch (it's the second most popular after Mailpile on https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/categories/1665-webmail-clients ), but frustrating that e.g. it seemingly can't be used to set-up filters and so need to use Rainloop for that. The state of open source webmail really is bad 😞

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                                • girish
                                  girish Staff @jdaviescoates last edited by

                                  @jdaviescoates I think roundcube is the best of the lot. But also, the desktop and mobile clients are quite great though.

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                                  • atrilahiji
                                    atrilahiji App Dev last edited by

                                    I use rainloop as I use nextcloud contacts and calendars and it made sense for my users to have their webmail in the same app. But also not have to deal with the absolute garbage that is Nextcloud Mail.

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                                    • jdaviescoates
                                      jdaviescoates @atrilahiji last edited by

                                      @atrilahiji said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                                      the absolute garbage that is Nextcloud Mail.

                                      To be fair, it is pretty new and getting better. One day it might even be the best! (but not today).

                                      I can't really remember properly, but I think it recently added a way to have multiple identities and to easily switch between them, something which is missing from some of the others (I forget which).

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                                      • atrilahiji
                                        atrilahiji App Dev @jdaviescoates last edited by

                                        @jdaviescoates True. One thing that was frustrating was 1) the lack of filters and 2) no way to integrate with cloudron mail like the Rainloop app in Nextcloud.

                                        Also there was a point where new emails just stopped coming through on there. Got mad and switched.

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                                        • jimcavoli
                                          jimcavoli App Dev @atrilahiji last edited by

                                          @atrilahiji said in What's coming in 6.0 (take 2):

                                          1. no way to integrate with cloudron mail like the Rainloop app in Nextcloud.

                                          On that specific point, Nextcloud Mail does fine in my experience if the users have their cloudron email as their primary email, then you can do similar to the following (my.demo.com used in place of mail server name):
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                                          So it can depend a lot on your setup, but I'll freely give you that no sieve support is incredibly frustrating, plus I constantly can't find features that I feel like should be there, and even when it's "working" the visual design is so weird to me that things still feel wrong. I mean, I'd give it like a 4/10 and "would not recommend to a friend" but for some users/clients...it's evidently good enough?

                                          The rolling average in my experience is definitely hot garbage, but sometimes it's acceptable garbage. 😆

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                                          • girish
                                            girish Staff last edited by

                                            This release got delayed a bit because we have been trying to narrow down a crash in the LDAP code. We finally found it and have submitted a PR upstream - https://github.com/ldapjs/node-ldapjs/pull/686 . Now we can move forward 🙂

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