[Dovecot] dovecot 1.1.rc4 -> 1.0.10 : Recent counter wrong

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Apr 24 16:18:35 EEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:03 +0200, Laurent Papier wrote:
> Le Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:10:29 +0300
> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> écrit:
> 
> > On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Laurent Papier wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have tested dovecot 1.1.rc4. I seems to works fine with my  
> > > configuration.
> > >
> > > I have also tested the downgrade from 1.1rc4 to 1.0.10. It seems to  
> > > work fine
> > > too expect the following messages.
> > >
> > > Apr 15 14:46:44 dev dovecot: IMAP(lolo at gretel.com): Fixing header  
> > > counts in index /data/mail/gretel.com/l/o/lolo//dovecot.index:  
> > > Recent counter wrong
> > 
> > This is expected. The recent handling is implemented differently in  
> > v1.1.
> 
> This is a good news.
> What is the I/O impact of this operation ? 

Zero. It updates the index header based on the flags in the index file.

> Does it mean a full rescan of the mailbox (I use maildir format) ?

Dovecot does a "full rescan" (i.e. readdir() through all files in cur/)
every time cur/'s mtime changes to find out if there were external
changes.

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