[Dovecot] v1.1.alpha4 released / about dbox

[Farkas Levente]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> But since there's still a chance that index files could break (although
> v1.1 tries harder than v1.0 to fix problems), it would be nice if the
> flags/keywords were written to metadata block once in a while. So if the
> index files are lost, flag changes wouldn't be completely lost. Metadata
> updates of course use disk I/O so they shouldn't be done too often.
> 
> I was thinking that the metadata could be updated:
> 
> - if IMAP connection has been idling for 4 hours (not changing flags)
> - when closing mailbox and there are changes older than 4h
> - immediately if there are changes older than 24h (whenever mailbox is
> being synced, e.g. SELECT/NOOP/STATUS)
> 
> Or something like that. Those rules can of course be changed, but I'm
> not sure if I should bother making them configurable from dovecot.conf.
> There are already too many settings.

what about a maintanance srcipt/daemon which can be run from cron and
every sysadm can decided when and how often he'd like to update metadatas?

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"