[Dovecot] FTS/squat search indexes built when?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 1, 2008, at 1:39 AM, Patrick Nagel wrote:

> | 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?

You can't do that with --exec-mail. It expects to be running using the  
correct UID, GID, $USER and $HOME.

> Logging in via netcat / telnet works, but then I don't know how to  
> proceed...

With v1.2 code you could use the same printf .. | nc localhost 143,  
but unfortunately this doesn't work with older versions since the  
input buffer is reset after login.

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