Dovecot 2.3.8 - How to force index creation for user/mailbox?

[Durga Prasad Malyala]

Just curious how does moving indexes to different folder help.?

Cheers/DP

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 01:38 Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot <
dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:

> Gents, thank you all - moving indexes to external folder worked like a
> charm! :-)
>
> czw., 5 gru 2019 o 14:55 Dmitry Donskih via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> napisał(a):
>
>> Yes.
>>
>> mail_location =
>> maildir:/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir:INBOX=/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir/.INBOX:INDEX=/var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/%Ld/%Ln
>>
>> As Sami Ketola wrote earlier:
>>
>> rm -f /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/*
>>
>> doveadm index -u user at domain.ru INBOX
>>
>> doveadm force-resync -u user at domain.ru INBOX
>> ls /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/*
>>
>> /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/dovecot.index
>> /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache
>> /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log
>>
>>
>> 04.12.2019 18:15, Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot wrote:
>>
>> Someone who have mailbox in different directory than indexes, can confirm
>> if doveadm can recreate index (after deleting dovecot.index* files) or
>> these files can be created only by connecting with IMAP client?
>>
>> śr., 4 gru 2019 o 15:45 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> napisał(a):
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On 4 Dec 2019, at 11.48, Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot <
>>> dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > mail_location = maildir:~
>>> >
>>>
>>> can't spot anything obvious wrong. Just spotted that you are storing
>>> mails in users home root along with all other files such as index files.
>>>
>>> Maybe you should store the mailbox contents into Maildir:~/Maildir under
>>> the users home and index to ~/index/
>>>
>>> Sami
>>>
>>>
>>>
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