[Dovecot] FTS/squat search indexes built when?

[Patrick Nagel]

Hi

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:00:05 +0100, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
>> I would be interested in that script, too - are you working on it?
> 
> It appears that you can run IMAP commands by piping them into the imap 
> process - look at some of Timo's previous posts for examples.

I'm aware of 'dovecot --exec-mail imap'.

> I should 
> think it's a one line to type in the IMAP search command and have it 
> execute?

But I don't know how to wait for / react to answers from the IMAP server
(after listing mailboxes, selecting the mailbox, etc.) in shell (bash)
script, which would be my preferred choice as scripting language. Is it
possible? How?

> (implementation left as an exercise for the reader...)

Obviously I wrote this mail because I wanted to save some time and effort -
something wrong with that? ;)

Did really nobody do this "exercise" before?

> To do it remotely, perl/ruby and most common scripting languages have an 
> IMAP module which should work well (need to embed a password obviously)

Yes, I'm sure it would be easy with those - after reading all the module's
documentation, understanding all the caveats, implementing all the error
handling and so on.

So, again, if somebody came up with a solution already, please share, I'd
appreciate it.

Patrick.

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