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6 doveadm-index - Index mailboxes
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9 doveadm [-Dv] index [-S socket_path] [-q] [-n max_recent] mailbox
10 doveadm [-Dv] index [-S socket_path] -A [-q] [-n max_recent] mailbox
11 doveadm [-Dv] index [-S socket_path] -F file [-q] [-n max_recent] mail‐
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13 doveadm [-Dv] index [-S socket_path] -u user [-q] [-n max_recent] mail‐
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17 Add unindexed messages in a mailbox into index/cache file. If full text
18 search is enabled, also add unindexed messages to the fts database.
19 The caching adds only the fields that were previously added to the
21 mailbox's caching decisions, so it won't do anything useful for mail‐
22 boxes that user's client hasn't accessed yet. You can use doveadm dump
23 command to show a specific mailbox's current caching decisions.
24 Messages can also be added automatically to full text search index
26 using:
27 plugin {
29 ...
30 fts_autoindex = yes
31 }
32 in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf.
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35 Global doveadm(1) options:
36 -D Enables verbosity and debug messages.
38 -o setting=value
40 Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dove‐
41 cot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to
42 override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified mul‐
43 tiple times.
44 -v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
46 Command specific options:
48 -A If the -A option is present, the command will be performed for
50 all users. Using this option in combination with system users
51 from userdb { driver = passwd } is not recommended, because it
52 contains also users with a lower UID than the one configured
53 with the first_valid_uid setting.
54 When the SQL userdb module is used make sure that the iter‐
56 ate_query setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext matches
57 your database layout. When using the LDAP userdb module, make
58 sure that the iterate_attrs and iterate_filter settings in
59 /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext match your LDAP schema. Oth‐
60 erwise doveadm(1) will be unable to iterate over all users.
61 -F file
63 Execute the command for all the users in the file. This is sim‐
64 ilar to the -A option, but instead of getting the list of users
65 from the userdb, they are read from the given file. The file
66 contains one username per line.
67 -n max_recent
69 An integer value, which specifies the maximum number of \Recent
70 messages in mailboxes. If the mailbox contains more than
71 max_recent messages with \Recent flag set, the mailbox will not
72 be indexed. This may be useful to avoid unnecessary indexing
73 for large mailboxes that are never opened.
74 -q Queues the indexing to be run by indexer process. Without -q
76 the indexing is done directly by the doveadm(1) process. Some
77 backends like fts-lucene can't handle multiple processes updat‐
78 ing the indexes simultaneously, so -q should usually be used on
79 production.
80 -S socket_path
82 The option's argument is either an absolute path to a local UNIX
83 domain socket, or a hostname and port (hostname:port), in order
84 to connect a remote host via a TCP socket.
85 This allows an administrator to execute doveadm(1) mail commands
87 through the given socket.
88 -u user/mask
90 Run the command only for the given user. It's also possible to
91 use '*' and '?' wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).
92 When neither the -A option, nor the -F file option, nor the
93 -u user was specified, the command will be executed with the
94 environment of the currently logged in user.
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97 mailbox
98 The name of the mailbox to index.
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101 Index bob's INBOX:
102 doveadm index -u bob INBOX
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106 Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List
107 <dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is available
108 at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
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