[Dovecot] v1.1.rc8 released

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 12:09 +0200, Anders wrote:
> >> Also, the W=nnnn size thing is not added to filenames when using -p.
> >
> > And cache isn't updated either. These are because hard linking can be
> > done without actually reading the mail contents. I won't fix this for
> > v1.1, but I updated the documentation.
> >
> > I'm not sure what the best final solution to this is though. There could
> > of course be a special deliver-check when the reading is done, but COPY
> > command has the same problem. Should it read the files or not? If the
> > file contents are already in memory it would be a good idea to read them
> > and update cache, but otherwise not. I guess mincore() is the only
> > potential way to check that, but mmaping the file only to check that is
> > probably more trouble than worth.
> 
> For the delivery case, the mail will obviously be in memory, as we have
> just written it to a temporary file. Is it more than a few lines of code
> to add an index update to deliver.c after the hardlink? I might want to
> have that as a local patch.

I'm not sure. Maybe it wouldn't be too difficult.

> As an alternative, can I call something from my wrapper script to have the
> index updated after delivery? I guess this will be impossible in the
> general case, as there is no way to know where Sieve decided to put the
> mail.

You could do e.g.:

1 fetch * bodystructure 

But this assumes that client is interested of bodystructure, otherwise
it pollutes the cache with an unnecessary field. You could also check
if:

1 search * body asdf

updates cache. I vaguely remember that it does, but I'm not sure.
idxview anyway shows what exists in cache.

> I am not sure how important the update is in our case, anyway. Most people
> have the MUA open all day, and I guess a client in IDLE will fetch the
> headers and have the index updated immediately, right?

With most clients, yes.
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