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. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost
