26 Apr
2004
26 Apr
'04
10:20 p.m.
How resilient is Dovecot's indexing mechanism? (seeing as it's been extensively re-vamped I guess this question may have different answers for 0.99 & 1.0).
To put it in context, I'm playing with server-side automatic maintenance scripts for things like deleting messages more than x days old from folders a, b, c, etc. (using Maildir layout). So far I'm just zapping files in the cur and new directories and nothing amiss appears to happen from the IMAP client's viewpoint.
I just wonder if I'm storing up trouble. Will the index files continue to hold references to non-existent files and get bloated, or do they self-clean?
-- Rick Jones