SQUAT failed

[Phil Chambers]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:30:53 +0100 Phil Pennock 
<info-cyrus-spodhuis at spodhuis.org> wrote:

> On 2006-11-02 at 15:08 +0100, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> > what is "SQUAT"? I have several lines like this in my logfile:
> 
> "man -k squat" or "apropos squat" should point you to:
> squatter(8)              - create SQUAT indexes for mailboxes
> 
> That man-page explains how squatter provides indexes of mail content for
> speeding up IMAP SEARCH and shows you how to use it.
> 
> There will also be an entry in your cyrus.conf, EVENTS section, which is
> starting these processes.
> 

I do not use squat and do not have squatter in my cyrus.conf file but get these 
messages all the time. So, they are not produced by squatter running.

In my logs they are being generated by imapd. Given that they are to help 
searches I am baffled. There are typically 170,000 to 200,000 instances of 
'SQUAT failed to open index file' in my log each day and I can't believe that 
our users do that many searches!

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster at exeter.ac.uk)
University of Exeter