minimal configuration for lucene fts

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Hi,

I'm using dovecot (version 2.2.13 on archlinux) in the simplest,
no-brainer way possible. It sits between mbsync, which I use to fetch
mail from servers, and Gnus, my MUA. Both mbsync and Gnus connect to
dovecot with an invocation like this:

/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:$HOME/.mail/ea/

I have three different mail accounts, all that changes is the final
directory on the mail_location path above.

I haven't touched anything else: there's no running daemon, no
configuration, no user database, no PAM, no nothing.

Now I'm trying to set up text searching via lucene, but all the examples
I've seen online assume a full running daemon and user accounts. I tried
to fake it by running:

doveadm index -u eric at localhost -q INBOX
-o mail_location-maildir:/home/eric/.mail/ea

but it was clearly expecting a user database.

Is there any way to create text indexes for my three different accounts,
in their respective directories, without fully setting up a running
dovecot? I'll do that if I have to, but my current setup works great,
and is very simple, and I'd like to keep it simple if I can.

Thanks!
Eric