On 04/04/2024 03:15 EEST Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com> wrote:
Rupert Gallagher writes:
I keep finding myself in a corner with a user. He uses mail extensively, which is fine, he has a huge archive of own professional correspondence, which is fine, but he uses mail folders as if they were regular system folders, with very long paths, and keeps renaming them and moving them around, daily, breaking the mail index
Tangentially query: is Dveocot smart enough to optimize mailbox renaming to do index renaming (i.e. does not try to copy or recreate indices)?
Dovecot is, if you use LAYOUT=index. This will use only mailbox GUID on disk, and the folder name is only in indexes (both list index and mailbox index for recovery purposes).
I would recommend using 2.3.21 with LAYOUT=index to avoid problems.
Aki