[Dovecot] Is it possible to regenerate the index files?

[Joakim Verona]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:

> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 12:25 +0100, Joakim Verona wrote:
>> Is it possible to regenerate the index files, on other conditions than
>> the mbox file being read?
>> 
>> For instance, it would be nice if I could regenerate the index for a
>> specific mbox whenever procmail delivers mail to it.
>> 
>> If theres no existing solution, would it be possible to make a small
>> script with something like "nc" that could send an imap command to
>> dovecot, so that dovecot would rebuild its index for that mbox?
>> If so, which imap command triggers an index rebuild?
>
> export MAIL=mbox:/home/user/mail # ie. the default_mail_env expanded
> echo "1 status inbox (messages)" | /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap

Ok, that seems fairly easy... One tiny question though:
what does the "1" mean? I tried to parse the RFC but couldnt figure it
out. I guess its just some sequence id.


> For 1.0-test releases there should pretty soon come Dovecot LDA which
> saves the mail and updates the indexes immediately. I have a working
> test version of it already..

Nice! But will it work together with procmail?


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Joakim Verona
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