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How to uninstall the cPanel Solr Plugin

Austin Lowery
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Introduction

 

You may use the following procecure to uninstall the cPanel Dovecot Solr plugin.

 

The cPanel Solr plugin enables Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Full-Text Search (FTS) Indexing (powered by Apache Solr™), which provides fast search capabilities for IMAP mailboxes. FTS significantly improves the speed and convenience of the search experience for iOS® device, Microsoft Outlook®, Horde, Roundcube, and Mozilla Thunderbird users.

 

With WHM

 

  1. Login to WHM as the root user
  2. Navigate to: Home »cPanel »Manage Plugins
  3. Click the blue button that says: Uninstall “Full Text Search Indexing for IMAP powered by Apache Solr™”

 

With SSH / Command Line / Terminal

 

  1. Login via SSH or the Terminal feature in WHM as the root user
  2. Issue the following command: 
    /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/uninstall_dovecot_fts

 

This script is documented in more detail here:

https://docs.cpanel.net/whm/scripts/the-install_dovecot_fts-script/#uninstall-fts 

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