[Dovecot] Automatic Index Generation

[Maciej Poszywak]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I guess you mean logging in with POP3? There the slowdown comes from
> getting all messages' virtual sizes. So your preindexer could probably
> do this by running pop3 for all users. If you use only a single UID for
> users, you could do something like:
>
> for user in `cat users`; do
>   export MAIL=maildir:/home/$user/Maildir
>   echo "quit" | /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> done
>
>   
vmu1 at test:~$ env | grep MAIL
MAIL=maildir:/var/mail/testuser
vmu1 at test:~$ echo "quit" | /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
pop3(vmu1): Fatal: pop3_uidl_format setting is missing from config file

I have pop3_uidl_format correctly defined in the config file. I've also 
tried to strace pop3, to find where it does look for it, but with no 
success.