dovecot.index.log files: what are they?
Hi!
I have lots of these files:
/home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log
What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them?
Thomas
Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
I have lots of these files:
/home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log
What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them?
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
I have lots of these files:
/home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log
What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them?
Thanks, but I had read this.
I still don't know what they are good for, why they stay there for days and if I can remove them. After all, they are not the caches, but some "transaction logs" (I don't know what this is). Thomas
Am 10.12.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
I have lots of these files:
/home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log
What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them?
Thanks, but I had read this.
I still don't know what they are good for, why they stay there for days and if I can remove them. After all, they are not the caches, but some "transaction logs" (I don't know what this is)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_log
why don't you just keep your fingers from data maintained by a server application? it's not your business to touch them
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
Hi!
I have lots of these files:
/home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log
What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them?
This was a by-product of dovecot thinking that I had mbox mailboxes, while they were maildir mailboxes. So dovecot created one of these _for every single mail_, which is why I had so many of them. Thomas
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