On 15.11.2007, at 9.24, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
You could always just delete some of them manually. I guess it
would be possible to make it drop data more aggressively. I'll add
in my TODO.http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir "Dovecot stores keywords in the maildir filename's flags field
using letters a..z. This means that only 26 keywords are possible
to store in the maildir. If more are used, they're still stored in
Dovecot's index files."To "just delete" index files may mean that information is lost, too. I don't remember if there are data storred in the index files only.
Wouldn't it better to make index files just that "index files", and
move other information into "control" files? You've designed
Dovecot to have separate index and control files already.
That was the plan, Maildir keywords are the only exception. I was
also thinking about changing that some day so that it's not possible
to set more than 26 keywords with maildir. I think this is currently
pretty much a nonissue because keyword support is pretty bad with
most IMAP clients and no-one has more than maybe 10 different keywords.
Anyway, by "just delete them" I meant dovecot.index.cache files, not
the others. :)