Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

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@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

I figured there probably wasn't any way to do this, and just set up dovecot properly, running as a daemon.

E