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

[Joakim Verona]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:

> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 10:18 +0100, Joakim Verona wrote:
>> > export MAIL=mbox:/home/user/mail # ie. the default_mail_env expanded
>> > echo "1 status inbox (messages)" | /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap

I had a small problem with this:


[joakim at naru BUILD]$   export MAIL=mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/joakim ; echo "1 status inbox (messages)" |  /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap

returns:

* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as joakim
imap(joakim): Error: open(/var/spool/mail/.temp.naru.home.32308.e74f92ade9b3bf72) failed: Permission denied
imap(joakim): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/joakim: Permission denied
1 NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-03-14 13:04:58]


I have this in my dovecot.conf:

mbox_write_locks =  fcntl

so how can I get imap to read the configuration in this use case?


> It's a "tag". Something like sequence id, but it doesn't have to be
> numeric. Server just replies to that command with the same tag.

ok, thanks for the explanation.

>> Nice! But will it work together with procmail?
>
> I'm pretty sure it does, although I'm not very good with procmail (and I
> don't want to be). After the Dovecot LDA gets Sieve support, there's not
> that much reason to use procmail.

Thats sounds very nice. I dont have any experince with Sieve, but
after what I googled after this mail exchange, it seems nicer than procmail.

So maybe I can convert my procmail stuff to  Sieve in anticipation of
dovecot LDA getting Sieve support then.

-- 
Joakim Verona
www.verona.se