Re: blog post on gnus, dovecot, and lucene

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> writes:

>  ❦  8 octobre 2014 22:15 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> :
>
>>> I didn't notice that. I added that to my dovecot.conf:
>>>
>>> plugin {
>>>   fts = lucene
>>>   fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@.
>>> }
>>>
>>> And the search became faster. However, I usually don't use FTS (only
>>> search on recipient or title). If I check right now, I notice that the
>>> indexes are not up-to-date. So, you may be right.
>>
>> But it's pretty interesting that that did something -- I wasn't sure
>> that calling dovecot as a process would even invoke the configuration
>> files at all. But you don't think the indexes were updated, huh?
>>
>> It might be worth amending the blog post at some point. I've asked about
>> this stuff on the dovecot mailing list, but no one seemed to know.
>
> I have done a doveadm fts rescan to get those indexes updated. So, maybe
> the solution could be a cronjob?

Right, that should work fine. At that point, though, I'm inclined just
to have dovecot run as a daemon...