[Dovecot] FTS/squat search indexes built when?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jul 26, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Patrick Nagel wrote:

>> I should
>> think it's a one line to type in the IMAP search command and have it
>> execute?
>
> But I don't know how to wait for / react to answers from the IMAP  
> server
> (after listing mailboxes, selecting the mailbox, etc.) in shell (bash)
> script, which would be my preferred choice as scripting language. Is  
> it
> possible? How?

I don't think you need to do any of that. Just:

printf "1 select $mailbox\n2 search  text x93hgdgd\n3 logout\n" |  
dovecot --exec-mail imap

For getting the list of mailboxes:

mailboxes=`printf "1 list "" *\n" | dovecot --exec-mail imap | perl  
magic`

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