On 31.3.2012, at 18.38, dm-list-email-dove...@scs.stanford.edu wrote: > Hi. I use dovecot in the simplest possible way, as an IMAP server in > pre-auth mode over ssh or just locally over a unix-domain socket > (e.g., with offlineimap, which runs much faster using dovecot for the > local message store). Ideally I would like to avoid running any extra > daemons or setting up anything as root. Until recently, this has > worked fine by just setting the CONFIG_FILE environment variable to > something in my home directory.
You can run Dovecot without root: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/Rootless > Full text search used to work just fine with this configuration, and > still does on a machine I have running dovecot 2.0.13. However, on > the machine with 2.1, I get errors about /var/run/dovecot/index not > existing. > > $ printf "a select INBOX\nb search text xyzzy\nc logout\n" \ > | /usr/lib/dovecot/imap > * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE > IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT > CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC > ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE] Logged > in as dm > imap(dm): Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/indexer) failed: No such > file or directory I looked at the code and looks like there is no easy way to make it work the old way. The new way is the only way to make fts-lucene work reliably, and it's also better for fts-solr. And fts-squat is really on its way out to die.
