[Dovecot] FTS/squat search indexes built when?

[Jack Stewart]

Patrick Nagel wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> | printf "1 select $mailbox\n2 search  text x93hgdgd\n3 logout\n" |
> | dovecot --exec-mail imap
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> | For getting the list of mailboxes:
> |
> | mailboxes=`printf "1 list "" *\n" | dovecot --exec-mail imap | perl 
> magic`
> 
> Ok, looks easy. But I can't find information anywhere on how to specify the
> user. I tried with 'USER=username' in front of the dovecot call, and 
> dovecot
> then said 'Logged in as username' instead of 'Logged in as root', but a 
> list
> command doesn't show the mailboxes, so I think it's not accessing the 
> maildir
> of that user.
> I guess it's because the users are not system users, and dovecot needs to
> retrieve info from the LDAP directory first. But how do I tell it to do 
> that?
> 
> Logging in via netcat / telnet works, but then I don't know how to 
> proceed...
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> Patrick.
> 

exporting the $USER variable seems to work - i.e. 'export USER=joetest'. 
The index is updated and you get all the lovely information for reporting.

This is great. Unfortunately when I run it, existing messages for mutt 
are marked as O (or old). Thunderbird works just fine. I'm betting to 
believe these clients hate me. Please let me know of a way to get around 
this. Thanks.

---Jack