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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] mailbox
doveadm [-Dv] index [-S socket_path] -u user [-q] [-n max_recent] mailbox

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 deci-
sions, so it won't do anything useful for mailboxes that user's client hasn't accessed
yet. You can use doveadm dump command to show a specific mailbox's current caching deci-
sions.

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/dovecot.conf and from the
userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the -o option
may be specified multiple 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 config-
ured with the first_valid_uid setting.

When the SQL userdb module is used make sure that the iterate_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. Otherwise doveadm(1)
will be unable to iterate over all users.

-F file
Execute the command for all the users in the file. This is similar 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 mail-
boxes. 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 updating 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@dove-
cot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugre-
port.html