[Dovecot] Clients and dovecot-uidlist

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 31 19:50:11 EEST 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 18:48 +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:26:04PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> So, to come back at my initial question : 
> 
> Is it correct to say that what's wrong in dovecot-uidlist lost is the potential
> lost of UIDVALIDITY and nextUID (if indexes are deleted as well) ?

Right.

> I mean dovecot-uidlist lost alone has not much consequences as long as you
> still got indexes ?

Clients will still re-download all messages, although they're less
likely to break completely. But I still don't understand how you could
lose dovecot-uidlist but not indexes.
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