on Sat Nov 17 2012, "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller-AT-amfes.com> wrote:
> On 11/16/2012 12:58 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote: >> on Thu Nov 15 2012, "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller-AT-amfes.com> wrote: >> >>> On 11/14/2012 6:52 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote: >>>> Does anyone have an answer to this question? Should I simply issue an >>>> IMAP search command, or is there a better way? >>>> >>> Put this in a cron script: >>> >>> doveadm search -A text zyxabcxyz > /dev/null >>> >>> That will perform a search through every mailbox on the system, >>> indexing as it goes. The search query is unlikely to return much in >>> the way of results, so log files won't fill up much. >> That actually doesn't work for me. "doveadm index ..." does, though. >> > > Use whatever works for you. The problem (for me) with "doveadm index" > is it only works with the specified mailboxes. It can be done for all > users - but only designated mailboxes. So a "doveadm index -A INBOX" > will scan all inboxes - but none of the other folders. The search > command I showed performs a recursive search that hits everything. I take it back; I'm not sure if "doveadm search" causes re-indexing. However, I *know* issuing a search command from a Python IMAP library doesn't do so. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost
