Chris Mattingly wrote: > brian wrote: >>Yes, i see, that's to invoke it. But i'm also reading that the config >>must be in imapd.conf yet i've seen no example for the syntax to do so >>(nor what is required (or even suggested)). >> >>I'm also wondering how to have squatter run against all IMAP mailboxes. >>Do i need to specify them all when i invoke it? Or can i get away with >>feeding it "/var/spool/imap" with the -r switch and hoping it will >>figure it out? >> > > I don't believe there are any squatter specific options that go into > imapd.conf. I suspect that the reference you're seeing to squatter > reading imapd.conf (or other config referenced by -C) is simply for > squatter to see where the imap spool is (i.e. partition-default), and > possibly some other environment-specific parameters it needs to know. > The only options squatter takes are those specified in its man page, and > those would go in cyrus.conf. > > Unless you specify with via mboxcfg to not index a mailbox, or you > specify a single mailbox on the command line, sieve will index all > mailboxes by default. > > My exact cyrus.conf entry is: > > squatter cmd="squatter" period=180 > > And all mailboxes on my (rather small) system are indexed every 3 hours. > OK, that makes perfect sense. I was thrown off by the squatter man page where it says "squatter gets *its* configuration options ..." and was expecting that to mean squatter-specific stuff, as opposed to the general IMAP setup. Thanks (and to Robert as well). I'll give this a go. brian ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html