[Dovecot] Error: unlink_directory(.../lucene-indexes) with doveadm index

[Fred Kilbourn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org]
> On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:52 PM
> To: Fred Kilbourn
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Error: unlink_directory(.../lucene-indexes) with
> doveadm index
> 
> On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 05:08 -0600, Fred Kilbourn wrote:
> > I am updating search indexes on all my mailboxes via a nightly cronjob
> that
> > runs: doveadm index -A '*'
> >
> > The problem we're running into is that random mailboxes will throw the
> > following error during the update (sanitized to conceal actual domain
> name):
> >
> > doveadm(user at domain.com): Error:
> > unlink_directory(/var/spool/mail/domain.com/user/sdbox/lucene-indexes)
> > failed: Permission denied
> >
> > We have around 250 domains on the server, with a handful of mailboxes
> on
> > average in each domain.  We get this for a varying number of total
> mailboxes
> > (1 to 6 every night).  It is common for the same mailbox to show up a
> few
> > days in a row and then stop throwing the error.  The script is running
> as
> > root, so there shouldn't be any file level permissions.
> 
> Try if this works: doveadm index -A -q '*'
> 
> This way the indexing is done by indexer processes with proper
> permissions. Although I wonder if it floods the indexer processes too
> quickly with the commands if there are a lot of users..

Okay I'll give that a try.  I don't see that option anywhere in the
documentation, but I do see it in the source so I'll see what happens.

Thanks.