Re: [Dovecot] Best way to change index location on mdbox

Timo Sirainen schrieb:

You must not lose indexes with mdbox or you'll lose message flags and mails may also end up going to wrong mailboxes.

Yes, have been there but this behaviour is confusing me as I find conflicting information in the wiki:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles "If index files are missing, Dovecot creates them automatically when the mailbox is opened."

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox This data cannot be automatically recreated, so it is important that Index files are treated with the same care as message data files.

So why do I lose mails if I delete index file but if e.g. a director connects to a backend with non existing index files yet, they are created.