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

[Dave Abrahams]

After all this, some experimentation shows that doveadm index /does/
after all, update FTS indices.  I wish this were better documented.

on Wed Nov 14 2012, Dave Abrahams <dave-AT-boostpro.com> wrote:

> 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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