[Dovecot] Index abuse

[Rick Jones]

--On 26 April 2004 23:24 +0300 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 22:20, Rick Jones wrote:
> >
> > I just wonder if I'm storing up trouble. Will the index files continue
> > to hold references to non-existent files and get bloated, or do they
> > self-clean?
>
>
> They'll clean themselves up. I wouldn't call Dovecot maildir- or
> mbox-compatible if it didn't.
>
>
> That's actually how it internally works now, Dovecot just deletes the
> mails and then calls mailbox syncing function which updates the indexes.
> New indexing code does it differently though.

Thanks, that's great to know.

-- 
Cheers
Rick
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