On 26.10.2010, at 21.05, ian@comtek.co.uk wrote:
Is it considered 'safe' to delete directly from a dovecot Maildir? I mean things of the form:
rm Maildir/cur/1288062016.M581217P9422.alpha,S=1873,W=1900:2,S
Yes.
Specifically I'm wondering what happens with: dovecot.index dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log dovecot-uidlist
Since (http://wiki.dovecot.org/IndexFiles) tells me these files index each message is there a chance of Dovecot breaking badly if it can't find them?
No.
Is it intelligent enough to automatically update the above files when it finds a missing message file?
Yes.
Would simply deleting the 4 files be appropriate?
Don't do that. And if you ever do decide to delete any dovecot.index* files, just don't delete dovecot-uidlist or the clients will have to redownload mails.