Using virtual folders with younger and index files
Hi list,
I just encountered a problem while using dovecot's Virtual plugin with 2.3.0. I managed to solve the issue, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of others on the list to see if there exists a better solution, if I found a bug, or if it's just a matter of updating documentation.
I have a virtual folder to get the most recent two weeks of mails; it looks something like this:
INBOX all younger 1209600
I made this folder back in October. Lately, I started to notice that the virtual folder had a surprising amount of mail in it - I don't get 1,000 e-mails per week! After some doveadm commands, I realized that e-mails from October were still present in my virtual folder! Updating the dovecot-virtual would clear away e-mails older than two weeks (I needed to actually introduce a change, even if it was just whitespace - just touching the file didn't update things), and removing the dovecot index file also cleared things away. In then end, I ended up just telling dovecot to disable on-disk indexes for that folder.
I created this folder based on the examples on https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual - I'm wondering if I found a bug or if that page should be changed to recommend disabling on-disk indexes when using certain search query filters such as "younger". If the latter, I can always make the change - just let me know!
-Rob
Hello Rob,
Do you by chance have a virtual/All folder which holds all your messages? If so, could I see that configuration?
Thanks. Dave.
On 2/27/18, Rob Hoelz rob+dovecot@hoelz.ro wrote:
Hi list,
I just encountered a problem while using dovecot's Virtual plugin with 2.3.0. I managed to solve the issue, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of others on the list to see if there exists a better solution, if I found a bug, or if it's just a matter of updating documentation.
I have a virtual folder to get the most recent two weeks of mails; it looks something like this:
INBOX all younger 1209600
I made this folder back in October. Lately, I started to notice that the virtual folder had a surprising amount of mail in it - I don't get 1,000 e-mails per week! After some doveadm commands, I realized that e-mails from October were still present in my virtual folder! Updating the dovecot-virtual would clear away e-mails older than two weeks (I needed to actually introduce a change, even if it was just whitespace - just touching the file didn't update things), and removing the dovecot index file also cleared things away. In then end, I ended up just telling dovecot to disable on-disk indexes for that folder.
I created this folder based on the examples on https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual - I'm wondering if I found a bug or if that page should be changed to recommend disabling on-disk indexes when using certain search query filters such as "younger". If the latter, I can always make the change - just let me know!
-Rob
Hi David,
Sorry, I do not - I just have two virtual folders that hold the last two weeks of mail, plus one that holds flagged mails.
-Rob
On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:50:11 -0500 David Mehler dave.mehler@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Rob,
Do you by chance have a virtual/All folder which holds all your messages? If so, could I see that configuration?
Thanks. Dave.
On 2/27/18, Rob Hoelz rob+dovecot@hoelz.ro wrote:
Hi list,
I just encountered a problem while using dovecot's Virtual plugin with 2.3.0. I managed to solve the issue, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of others on the list to see if there exists a better solution, if I found a bug, or if it's just a matter of updating documentation.
I have a virtual folder to get the most recent two weeks of mails; it looks something like this:
INBOX all younger 1209600
I made this folder back in October. Lately, I started to notice that the virtual folder had a surprising amount of mail in it - I don't get 1,000 e-mails per week! After some doveadm commands, I realized that e-mails from October were still present in my virtual folder! Updating the dovecot-virtual would clear away e-mails older than two weeks (I needed to actually introduce a change, even if it was just whitespace - just touching the file didn't update things), and removing the dovecot index file also cleared things away. In then end, I ended up just telling dovecot to disable on-disk indexes for that folder.
I created this folder based on the examples on https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual - I'm wondering if I found a bug or if that page should be changed to recommend disabling on-disk indexes when using certain search query filters such as "younger". If the latter, I can always make the change - just let me know!
-Rob
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