Hi,
I thought I should document this. (Dovecot 2.2.9, see config at bottom.)
I installed dovecot and then converted a number of mbox mailboxes to Maildir, and had a number of pre-existing Maildir mailboxes.
I then installed the debian (wheezy) fts-solar and jetty packages, and tested my inbox using the "telnet localhost imap ... 3 SEARCH text "test" method as described on the dovecot wiki.
Everything seemed to work.
But when I used balsa to search a mailbox other than my inbox, I got no results.
"doveadm dump" on the searched mailbox showed that "last_indexed_uid" to be the last uid of my inbox.
Stopping dovecot, deleting out the dovecot-index* files, starting dovecot, and re-running "doveadm dump" showed a non-existant last_indexed_uid -- that is, last_indexed_uid did not show up in the dump output.
Using the telnet method above to attempt to search again yielded no results, but this time (I think, I also tried various times with balsa) the last_indexed_uid value was that of the last uid in my trash mailbox. I don't believe I'd yet tried fts on my trash.
Using balsa as an imap client the results were very consistent; every Maildir where "doveadm dump" returned no last_indexed_uid value had the last_indexed_uid set to that of the inbox's largest uid.
Running "doveadm fts rescan -u foo" fixed the problem. (FWIW, now all the Maildirs seem to have a last_indexed_uid=0.)
Regards,
Karl kop@meme.com Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein
# 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-486 i686 Debian 7.7 default_vsz_limit = 1 G disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/.inbox mail_plugins = fts fts_solr namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } namespace unconverted { hidden = no list = yes location = mbox:~/mail prefix = unconverted/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { fts = solr fts_autoindex = yes fts_solr = url=http://localhost:8983/solr/ } protocols = " imap" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_cert =