[Dovecot] purge maildir folder after sa-learn

[Phil Howard]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:13, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 09:56 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote:
>> > rm -f /path/to/Maildir/.spam-learn/*
>
> Oh, I really ment .spam-learn/cur/* (and maybe .spam-learn/new/* if you
> make it learn from both and it doesn't move mails to cur/).
>
>> Can I simply delete the files, don't I destroy any indices or slow
>> down Dovecot operation because of index rebuilding?
>
> Keep Dovecot's index files around so that they won't get deleted while
> Dovecot is trying to read/write them. You won't slow down anything by
> manually deleting maildir files.

So basically, just moving mail files out (to a learn queue or
whatever), from either "new" or "cur" is safe for Dovecot?  That would
be simpler.