on Mon Nov 19 2012, "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller-AT-amfes.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/2012 6:57 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote: >> 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. >> > > That indicates something else is broken - unless my Dovecot > understanding is totally off (which is always possible, even likely). > To my knowledge, until the relatively recent support for the "doveadm > index" command, the primary and indeed only way to index was to > perform a search. When Dovecot receives a search request, whether > passed by IMAP or through the doveadm backdoor, if the mailbox isn't > current then any new mails are supposed to be added to the index in > the course of the search. If that doesn't happen - then I think > something is broken in your setup. Well, perhaps I didn't satisfy the "mailbox isn't current" criterion. All I had done was to delete the FTS indices when I tried this. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost