[Dovecot] Haha wow, thats freakin cool... mdbox

[Stan Hoeppner]

Brandon Lamb put forth on 7/18/2010 2:22 AM:
> It didnt really click until I had a "ls -ald *" on watch while I moved
> messages around folders using mdbox... I moved about 200 first to an
> Archive folder, and scratched my head wondering why i didnt see any
> new m.* files being created after the move. So then I moved some 5k
> other messages from other folders to my archive folder...
> 
> Then it dawned on me, how damn cool, the data never changes, dovecot
> just updates its index of what folder the message is in?!
> 
> That is awesome!

What happens when these indexes become corrupted, get accidentally deleted, or
have the permissions accidentally changed in a way that they become unreadable
by Dovecot?  Does Dovecot still report the messages as being in the correct
folder?

-- 
Stan