[Dovecot] Do index files need removing when upgrading 1.0-stable to 1.0-alpha1 or later?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 13:52 +0100, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> 
> Just a quick question: do index files still need removing when upgrading 
> from 1.0-stable (as in the testXX series) or will Dovecot regenerate 
> them automatically?
> 
> I'm expecting to go with 1.0-stable on Tuesday for my 20,000 users (as 
> that's what I've been testing), but if we see lots of index issues, I 
> may want to upgrade to alpha1 (or later) fairly soon afterwards and it 
> would be annoying to have do delete thousands of indexes!

The index files have a version number in header and if it's not correct
the index is silently rebuilt. -stable and -test versions have different
index versions, so the answer is just "yes" :)

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