Wait, did you mean 'dovecot.index' file? That file is only created occasionally, the actual index is kept in dovecot.index.log.
Aki > On 03/12/2019 21:20 Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > > Thanks, but both commands didn't create dovecot.index. Only when I open > folder with IMAP client, the dovecot.index is created. > > > wt., 3 gru 2019 o 18:16 Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@open-xchange.com> napisał(a): > > > > > On 03/12/2019 18:30 Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm using maildirs, and I have problems with big mailboxes (~ 20000 > > emails, 30-50GB) - sometimes access to such mailbox takes very long (~10 > > minutes), I would like to be able to create index for mailbox in > > background, but I couldn't find any way to do it. So far I tried: > > > > > > doveadm -D -vvv index -u user 'Folder' > > > > > > But even if this folder have no dovecot.index* files - I always get: > > > > > > doveadm(user): Info: Wersje robocze: Cache is already up to date > > > > > > It seems that doveadm doesn't actually checks if the index is present. > > The index is created only when I log with IMAP client and check the folder. > > > > > > So i tried: > > > doveadm mailbox cache purge -u user 'Folder' > > > > > > No joy either: > > > doveadm(user): Error: Cache is unusable > > > > > > And command below doesn't actually do anything to index: > > > doveadm -vvv force-resync -u user 'Folder' > > > > > > Is there any way to use doveadm tool to create/fix index? Shouldn't the > > index be updated on each email arrival? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > TomekL > > > > Try first 'doveadm fetch -u victim body ALL'. If this does not produce any > > useful results, try 'doveadm force-resync -u victim "*"'. > > > > Aki > >