[Dovecot] fts squat index file not appearing

[Timo Sirainen]

On 22.5.2011, at 5.59, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

> On 5/20/2011 1:37 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 20.5.2011, at 23.33, Daniel L. Miller wrote:..
>>> protocol imap {
>>>  mail_plugins = " fts fts_squat imap_zlib zlib"
>>> }
>> You've enabled fts for imap protocol, nothing else. Same with zlib, which can cause trouble. Make them global:
>> 
>> mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib
>> protocol imap {
>>   mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_zlib
>> }
>> 
> 
> Amazing - that works!  Now...WHY does that work?!  I thought I was doing the RIGHT thing by using the individual protocol plugin variables - not including plugins in areas that I THOUGHT were unnecessary.

Sure it worked with imap. But you were trying to use doveadm. doveadm isn't imap..

> If there are plugins that need to be global (and there obviously are) - please indicate so in the wiki.

Everything that isn't imap_* should probably be global. That is how all the examples are written. I don't know where/how I could say it better.