On 10/18/22 05:27, tom@gather.coop wrote:

My config looks like this:

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.whoosh_backend.WhooshEngine', 'PATH': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "fulltext_index"), ... I have whoosh 2.7.4 installed. But my fulltext_index directory contains only one file, _MAIN_0.toc, which hasn't been updated in two years.

What could be going on here? Presumably Hyperkitty should be indexing new messages as they are archived. I could run update_index to fix the index now but then it would just go out of date again.

Also asked on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74055901/mailman-3-hyperkitty-indexes-no...

And answered there. You need to be running several things periodically via cron. For Mailman core, see https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/config-core.html#configuring-cron-jobs and for Django, see https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/config-web.html#scheduled-tasks-required.

The particular job which updates the search index is the hyperkitty update_index job which in current HyperKitty is one of the hourly jobs.

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