[Dovecot] Courier migrating issues: indexes, maildirsize, update query

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 23 16:32:41 EEST 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:36 +0200, Jan van den Berg wrote:
> About the indexes; this thoroughly confusing. 
> I don't understand why Dovecot IMAP wants to use index files for a
> maildir++ implementation (this seems to defy the point of a maildir).

Hmm. I suppose I should write a wiki page about the index files.. Done:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/IndexFiles

> Still I can't get it to work (index=memory) this is my line:
> 
> mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%1u/%2u/%u:INDEX=MEMORY
> 
> I added INDEX=MEMORY later; all was working fine before. Now however
> IMAP or POP3 no matter what I do; the dovecot.index files are still
> generated.

What do you use as userdb? If you return "mail" from there it overrides
mail_location.

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