DOVEADM-INDEX(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-INDEX(1)
NAME
doveadm-index - Index mailboxes
SYNOPSIS
doveadm [-Dv] index [-S socket_path] [-q] [-n max_recent] mailbox
doveadm [-Dv] index [-S socket_path] -A [-q] [-n max_recent] mailbox
doveadm [-Dv] index [-S socket_path] -F file [-q] [-n max_recent] mail-
box
doveadm [-Dv] index [-S socket_path] -u user [-q] [-n max_recent] mail-
box
DESCRIPTION
Add unindexed messages in a mailbox into index/cache file. If full text
search is enabled, also add unindexed messages to the fts database.
The caching adds only the fields that were previously added to the
mailbox's caching decisions, so it won't do anything useful for mail-
boxes that user's client hasn't accessed yet. You can use doveadm dump
command to show a specific mailbox's current caching decisions.
Messages can also be added automatically to full text search index
using:
plugin {
...
fts_autoindex = yes
}
in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf.
OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1) options:
-D Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-o setting=value
Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dove-
cot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to
override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified mul-
tiple times.
-v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
Command specific options:
-A If the -A option is present, the command will be performed for
all users. Using this option in combination with system users
from userdb { driver = passwd } is not recommended, because it
contains also users with a lower UID than the one configured
with the first_valid_uid setting.
When the SQL userdb module is used make sure that the iter-
ate_query setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext matches
your database layout. When using the LDAP userdb module, make
sure that the iterate_attrs and iterate_filter settings in
/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext match your LDAP schema. Oth-
erwise doveadm(1) will be unable to iterate over all users.
-F file
Execute the command for all the users in the file. This is sim-
ilar to the -A option, but instead of getting the list of users
from the userdb, they are read from the given file. The file
contains one username per line.
-n max_recent
An integer value, which specifies the maximum number of \Recent
messages in mailboxes. If the mailbox contains more than
max_recent messages with \Recent flag set, the mailbox will not
be indexed. This may be useful to avoid unnecessary indexing
for large mailboxes that are never opened.
-q Queues the indexing to be run by indexer process. Without -q
the indexing is done directly by the doveadm(1) process. Some
backends like fts-lucene can't handle multiple processes updat-
ing the indexes simultaneously, so -q should usually be used on
production.
-S socket_path
The option's argument is either an absolute path to a local UNIX
domain socket, or a hostname and port (hostname:port), in order
to connect a remote host via a TCP socket.
This allows an administrator to execute doveadm(1) mail commands
through the given socket.
-u user/mask
Run the command only for the given user. It's also possible to
use '*' and '?' wildcards (e.g. -u *@example.org).
When neither the -A option, nor the -F file option, nor the
-u user was specified, the command will be executed with the
environment of the currently logged in user.
ARGUMENTS
mailbox
The name of the mailbox to index.
EXAMPLE
Index bob's INBOX:
doveadm index -u bob INBOX
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List
<dovecot AT dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is available
at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO
doveadm(1)
Dovecot v2.3 2015-05-09 DOVEADM-INDEX(1)