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

[Daniel L. Miller]

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.

-- 
Daniel