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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:28:42AM +0000, Richard Hobbs wrote:
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Only dovecot 'deliver' will update the index on delivery.
Do does this mean that it's slightly slower to actually deliver the mail with dovecot (because it's writing two places instead of one), but it saves the files having to be indexed again, so overall potentially faster?
Things get re-indexed on client request if Dovecot sees that index is stale. So you are buying faster response times for clients with somewhat higher server load at mail delivery.
I don't know how this piecemeal update of the index stacks up against a complete re-index, but I'd assume it to be more efficient (only having to do new mails instead of whole mailbox). Still, I find the re-index to be almost instantaneous on not-so-small mailboxes (hundreds of MB) and fairly modest hardware, by today's standards.
Regards
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