[Dovecot] [BUMP] Unanswered: how to force FTS indexing?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Sat Nov 17 2012, "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller-AT-amfes.com> wrote:

> On 11/16/2012 12:58 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>> on Thu Nov 15 2012, "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller-AT-amfes.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/14/2012 6:52 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have an answer to this question?  Should I simply issue an
>>>> IMAP search command, or is there a better way?
>>>>
>>> Put this in a cron script:
>>>
>>> doveadm search -A text zyxabcxyz > /dev/null
>>>
>>> That will perform a search through every mailbox on the system,
>>> indexing as it goes.  The search query is unlikely to return much in
>>> the way of results, so log files won't fill up much.
>> That actually doesn't work for me.  "doveadm index ..." does, though.
>>
>
> Use whatever works for you.  The problem (for me) with "doveadm index"
> is it only works with the specified mailboxes.  It can be done for all
> users - but only designated mailboxes.  So a "doveadm index -A INBOX"
> will scan all inboxes - but none of the other folders.  The search
> command I showed performs a recursive search that hits everything.

I take it back; I'm not sure if "doveadm search" causes re-indexing.
However, I *know* issuing a search command from a Python IMAP library
doesn't do so.

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