On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 06:41:34PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 17:35 +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
Can this new mail be named identically, i.e. 1215166123.52887_0.host.dom.ain:2, ? if so, it would be a problem when merging.
Yes, except for Dovecot's potential warning:
Hmm you mean no ? Can a new message filen the same name as an old message ?
dovecot-uidlist is recreated lazily. So it may list files that have already been deleted. So when Dovecot notices that there exists a new file that's already listed in dovecot-uidlist but that has been expunged from Dovecot's index files, it'll figure out the message is unexpunged and to avoid breaking IMAP clients it'll log a warning and give a new UID to the file.
You mean when a client deletes a message, it is first deleted from index, and then deleted from dovecot-uidlist only if it reappears ? So dovecot-uidlist would grow infinitely ? Or maybe it is cleaned when UIDs have to be rearranged ?
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