[Dovecot] re-indexing moved mail

[David Warden]

 On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:20:10 -0500, Charles Marcus 
 <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:
> On 2011-01-04 5:55 PM, Phil Howard wrote:
>> I have a huge block of email that was misdelivered into the wrong
>> folder.  Moving it where it should be is not just all from one 
>> folder
>> to being all of another folder.
>
> Not sure what you mean here, but...
>
>> Basically, the index files need to be rebuilt. Looking in the wiki I
>> cannot find how to do this. It all seems to be about installation,
>> and no administrative tools.
>>
>> Or would it be just as simple as delete certain index files and they
>> would be automagically rebuilt?
>
> The indexes will be rebuilt the next time the client connects... no 
> need
> to even delete them - but yes, if you manually delete them, then 
> dovecot
> will rebuild them next time the client connects as well.

 If you want to rebuild the indexes before the client logs in, have you 
 looked at doveadm? Specifically, I think 
 http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/ForceResync may do what you're 
 looking for.

 If you're still using 1.x I've heard that people are able to compile 
 2.0 and use the doveadm binary on 1.x installations, but don't quote me 
 on that.