dovecot - Dec 2019 - Dovecot 2.3.8 - How to force index creation for user/mailbox?

Someone who have mailbox in different directory than indexes, can confirm
if doveadm can recreate index (after deleting dovecot.index* files) or
these files can be created only by connecting with IMAP client?

?r., 4 gru 2019 o 15:45 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi>
napisa?(a):
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> > On 4 Dec 2019, at 11.48, Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot <
> dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> >
> > mail_location = maildir:~
> >
>
> can't spot anything obvious wrong. Just spotted that you are storing
mails
> in users home root along with all other files such as index files.
>
> Maybe you should store the mailbox contents into Maildir:~/Maildir under
> the users home and index to ~/index/
>
> Sami
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> On 4 Dec 2019, at 17.15, Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot <dovecot at
dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
> Someone who have mailbox in different directory than indexes, can confirm
if doveadm can recreate index (after deleting dovecot.index* files) or these
files can be created only by connecting with IMAP client?
> 

[root at example .INBOX]# pwd
/vmail/sami at example.com/index/.INBOX
[root at example .INBOX]# ls
dovecot.index  dovecot.index.cache  dovecot.index.log
[root at example .INBOX]# rm dovecot.index.log 
rm: remove regular file ?dovecot.index.log?? y
[root at example .INBOX]# doveadm force-resync -u sami INBOX
[root at example .INBOX]# ls -al
total 8228
drwx------  2 vmail vmail      76 Dec  4 15:22 .
drwx------ 13 vmail vmail    4096 Nov 25 08:58 ..
-rw-------  1 vmail vmail  164080 Dec  4 15:22 dovecot.index
-rw-------  1 vmail vmail 8247872 Dec  4 15:21 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-------  1 vmail vmail     252 Dec  4 15:22 dovecot.index.log

[root at example .INBOX]# rm dovecot.index.*
rm: remove regular file ?dovecot.index.cache?? y 
rm: remove regular file ?dovecot.index.log?? y

[root at example .INBOX]# doveadm index -u sami INBOX
[root at example .INBOX]# doveadm force-resync -u sami INBOX

[root at example .INBOX]# ls -al
total 180
drwx------  2 vmail vmail     76 Dec  4 15:27 .
drwx------ 13 vmail vmail   4096 Nov 25 08:58 ..
-rw-------  1 vmail vmail 164080 Dec  4 15:27 dovecot.index
-rw-------  1 vmail vmail   5748 Dec  4 15:27 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-------  1 vmail vmail    308 Dec  4 15:27 dovecot.index.log

[root at example .INBOX]# doveconf -n | grep mail_location
mail_location = Maildir:/vmail/%u/Maildir:INDEX=/vmail/%u/index

[root at ketola .INBOX]# doveadm user sami | grep home
home    /vmail/sami at example.com

Sami
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Yes.

mail_location
maildir:/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir:INBOX=/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir/.INBOX:INDEX=/var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/%Ld/%Ln

As Sami Ketola wrote earlier:

rm -f /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/*

doveadm index -u user at domain.ru INBOX

doveadm force-resync-u user at domain.ru INBOX

ls /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/*

/var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/dovecot.index
/var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache
/var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log


04.12.2019 18:15, Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot wrote:
> Someone who have mailbox in different directory than indexes, can
> confirm if doveadm can recreate index (after deleting dovecot.index*
> files) or these files can be created only by connecting with IMAP client??
>
> ?r., 4 gru 2019 o 15:45?Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi
> <mailto:sami.ketola at dovecot.fi>> napisa?(a):
>
>
>
>     > On 4 Dec 2019, at 11.48, Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot
>     <dovecot at dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot at dovecot.org>>
wrote:
>     >
>     > mail_location = maildir:~
>     >
>
>     can't spot anything obvious wrong. Just spotted that you are
>     storing mails in users home root along with all other files such
>     as index files.
>
>     Maybe you should store the mailbox contents into Maildir:~/Maildir
>     under the users home and index to ~/index/
>
>     Sami
>
>
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Gents, thank you all - moving indexes to external folder worked like a
charm! :-)

czw., 5 gru 2019 o 14:55 Dmitry Donskih via dovecot <dovecot at
dovecot.org>
napisa?(a):
> Yes.
>
> mail_location >
maildir:/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir:INBOX=/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir/.INBOX:INDEX=/var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/%Ld/%Ln
>
> As Sami Ketola wrote earlier:
>
> rm -f /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/*
>
> doveadm index -u user at domain.ru INBOX
>
> doveadm force-resync -u user at domain.ru INBOX
> ls /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/*
>
> /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/dovecot.index
> /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache
> /var-fast/dovecot/indexes/vmail/domain.ru/user/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log
>
>
> 04.12.2019 18:15, Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot wrote:
>
> Someone who have mailbox in different directory than indexes, can confirm
> if doveadm can recreate index (after deleting dovecot.index* files) or
> these files can be created only by connecting with IMAP client?
>
> ?r., 4 gru 2019 o 15:45 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi>
napisa?(a):
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>>
>>
>> > On 4 Dec 2019, at 11.48, Tomek Lutelmowski via dovecot <
>> dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > mail_location = maildir:~
>> >
>>
>> can't spot anything obvious wrong. Just spotted that you are
storing
>> mails in users home root along with all other files such as index
files.
>>
>> Maybe you should store the mailbox contents into Maildir:~/Maildir
under
>> the users home and index to ~/index/
>>
>> Sami
>>
>>
>>
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