On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 20:30 +0200, arvids wrote:
On Thursday 10 January 2008 20:08:43 Charles Marcus wrote:
Ok, I guess we both may need to read it a few more time - not surprising in my case... :) OK, done :)
It doesn't say you don't need the index files - it says you don't need the dovecot.index.CACHE file...
According to this they are not the same:
If we disable index files (INDEX=MEMORY), indexing is not switched off, just all structures are kept only in memory and index.cache file is not created. And http://wiki.dovecot.org/POP3Server says that: 'for POP3-only users there's no need to create dovecot.index.cache file at all'. So from this I conclude that if we do not want index.cache file created we have to disable index files with INDEX=MEMORY. We are disabling index files on disk, not indexing.
The point of that was that v1.1 just doesn't create/update dovecot.index.cache files for POP3-only users. There's no need to configure it that way. I'll try to update the wiki to say that. :)
dovecot.index and dovecot.index.log files still get created. I don't know how much of a difference it makes if you disable them instead of just letting them be updated.