[Dovecot] re-indexing moved mail

[Charles Marcus]

On 2011-01-04 5:55 PM, Phil Howard wrote:
> I have a huge block of email that was misdelivered into the wrong
> folder.  Moving it where it should be is not just all from one folder
> to being all of another folder.

Not sure what you mean here, but...

> Basically, the index files need to be rebuilt. Looking in the wiki I
> cannot find how to do this. It all seems to be about installation,
> and no administrative tools.
> 
> Or would it be just as simple as delete certain index files and they 
> would be automagically rebuilt?

The indexes will be rebuilt the next time the client connects... no need
to even delete them - but yes, if you manually delete them, then dovecot
will rebuild them next time the client connects as well.

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Best regards,

Charles