On 17.10.2012, at 9.26, Fred Kilbourn wrote: >> doveadm fts rescan makes sure that 1) all of the old messages are >> indexed and 2) there are no extra (already deleted) messages indexed. So >> it's basically repairing fts index. You probably shouldn't run it >> automatically, or at least not very often. > > Okay, you've clarified that for me. > > I understand that rescan isn't a nightly task, but could be run every now > and then periodically. How often might be appropriate if I wanted to do > this as a maintenance task? Once a month?
I don't know, depends on if you have problems related to it. I think the most common answer would be "never". > Lastly, I'm trying to use the index command instead of the search command, > but I can't figure out how to make it index every mailbox for every user. > Is there a wildcard that can be used for the mailbox? Or do I need to > iterate all the mailboxes with one command and run index however many times > for each inbox? doveadm index '*' works in new versions. I don't remember from which version.
