dovecot.index.log files: what are they?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 10.12.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
>>> I have lots of these files:
>>>
>>> /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log
>>>
>>> What are they for?
>>> Why are they here?
>>> Can I remove them?
>>
>> RTFM: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles
>
> Thanks, but I had read this.
>
> I still don't know what they are good for, why they stay there for
> days and if I can remove them. After all, they are not the caches, but
> some "transaction logs" (I don't know what this is)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_log

why don't you just keep your fingers from data maintained by a server 
application? it's not your business to touch them

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