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

[Dave Abrahams]

on Mon Nov 19 2012, "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller-AT-amfes.com> wrote:

> On 11/18/2012 6:57 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:

>> I take it back; I'm not sure if "doveadm search" causes re-indexing.
>> However, I *know* issuing a search command from a Python IMAP library
>> doesn't do so.
>>
>
> That indicates something else is broken - unless my Dovecot
> understanding is totally off (which is always possible, even likely).
> To my knowledge, until the relatively recent support for the "doveadm
> index" command, the primary and indeed only way to index was to
> perform a search.  When Dovecot receives a search request, whether
> passed by IMAP or through the doveadm backdoor, if the mailbox isn't
> current then any new mails are supposed to be added to the index in
> the course of the search.  If that doesn't happen - then I think
> something is broken in your setup.

Well, perhaps I didn't satisfy the "mailbox isn't current" criterion.
All I had done was to delete the FTS indices when I tried this.

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