[Dovecot] Clients and dovecot-uidlist

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jul 31, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Thomas Hummel wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:21:40PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> Just dovecot-uidlist, or also dovecot.index*?
>
> Just dovecot-uidlist.

Then I don't really get it. You want to store index files on NFS, but  
not control files? Doesn't really make sense to me.

>> If you delete both, UIDVALIDITY is changed. If you delete only
>> dovecot-uidlist, it'll probably preserve UIDVALIDITY and just give  
>> new UIDs
>> to messages (because next_uid is also stored in index file).
>
> I don't get that : do indexes store UIDVALIDITY ?

Yes.

> nextUID isn't enough to
> guaranty mailbox instance uniqueness, right ?

Right.

BTW. You can use idxview program to look at what index file's contents  
are.