[Dovecot] Limiting the size of index files

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> You could always just delete some of them manually. I guess it would be 
> possible to make it drop data more aggressively. I'll add in my TODO.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir
"Dovecot stores keywords in the maildir filename's flags field using 
letters a..z. This means that only 26 keywords are possible to store in 
the maildir. If more are used, they're still stored in Dovecot's index 
files."

To "just delete" index files may mean that information is lost, too.
I don't remember if there are data storred in the index files only.

Wouldn't it better to make index files just that "index files", and move 
other information into "control" files? You've designed Dovecot to have 
separate index and control files already.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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