[Dovecot] Index maintenance

[Anders]

Anders wrote:

> I am unable to find information about what happens to the index file if I
> use something like the cron script at the bottom of
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire
>
> There must be some information in the index that is no longer needed. When
> and how will Dovecot clean this up?

A similar question is whether the expire plugin will help me at all, when
it is only used for folders that receive new messages each day?

Will the expire-tool give me the index maintenance that I am looking for?


Thanks,
Anders.