I'm starting a new thread for this specific issue. One external symptom
that has now been isolated to this problem is documented in my
long-running (and hopefully completed) thread about iPhones losing all
of their mail.
Here's what I know about this so far:
1) I had no clue what 'Lucene' was or what it did. So I've never
touched anything in any config file related to it. Whatever happened
came right out of the box as far as lucene config is concern. (ver
3.4+... I extracted the master branch a day or so after 3.4 was released).
2) I have been in the process of migrating 17+ years of mail in a James
SQL db from v3b5 on a dedicated server to ver 3.4 in Amazon Web Services
environment.
3) On 21Oct, I threw the switch and went live on my AWS environment.
4) Immediately some of my clients with iPhones complained that all of
their mail disappeared from their phone.
5) Being an iPhone user myself, I verified the problem. However, I
noticed that mail arriving to the new James instance was showing up in
the iPhone. Just no mail pre 21Oct.
6) Thunderbird was showing all of the old mail in the folders. But I've
since determined that TBird uses a different imap command that goes
straight to the JPA database to populate folders, bypassing the Lucene
index.
7) After two weeks of educating myself on the entire imap component and
doing a whole lot of adding log statements and trial & error debug, the
Lucene index became the prime suspect
8) Today, I removed the var/store/lucene folder and rebooted. The
iPhones now wiped out the last two weeks of email and either showed "No
Mail" or mail that arrived in the few minutes after wiping the lucene
folder. Note that it STILL didn't reindex old mail, even with an index
'restart'.
9) Finally on a whim, I changed indexer.xml to use "lazyIndex" instead
of "luceneIndex". Finally, the indexes rebuilt successfully, and the
iPhones now show all of the mail. Success...
Summary: lazyIndex seems to have no problems. Not sure what's going
wrong when luceneIndex is selected. But it isn't right.
Do I have any mis-assumptions? Is there something else I need to do in
order to get Lucene to index old mail?
This has been a tough one... I think I'll take a nap now...:-)
Jerry
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