[Dovecot] [BUMP] Unanswered: how to force FTS indexing?

[Dave Abrahams]

Does anyone have an answer to this question?  Should I simply issue an
IMAP search command, or is there a better way?

on Thu Nov 01 2012, Dave Abrahams <dave-AT-boostpro.com> wrote:

>> This index is not updated in real time.  This is why Timo and others
>> recommend cron'ing a script to index folders regularly that are
>> searched regularly.  
>
> And how does one index the folders for search?  Is that "doveadm
> index" or "doveadm fts rescan" (which I see at
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS but NOT in the manpage), or...?
>
>> This keeps the indexes up to date and keeps searches fast.  If you
>> don't do this or search often, your indexes become stale.  Then each
>> time you do an FTS search the first thing that happens is an FTS
>> re-indexing of the mail folder.  Only then does it display the search
>> results.
>>
>>> BTW, I'm using the clucene search backend.
>>
>> I've not used Lucene, but I believe the default behavior is similar to
>> the Dovecot 1.2.x FTS indexer.
>
> Not sure what conclusion to draw from that, thanks.

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