[Dovecot] problem with virtual plugin/index files?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Aug 23 23:00:00 EEST 2012


On 18.8.2012, at 0.12, Lutz Preßler wrote:

>>> inthread refs younger 604800
>>> 
>>> This works as expected for the first time. But later on, also older messages/
>>> threads are included until I delete the virtual/.week/dovecot.index*.
>> 
>> I know there are problems related to this with INTHREAD, but they aren't
>> very easy to solve and for now I've more important things to do.. If it
>> seemed to work before, it was due to luck or due to some bug causing an
>> unnecessary index rebuild. You could set :INDEX=MEMORY to work around
>> this, but I don't know how much worse the performance would become. Or
>> you could just manually delete the virtual indexes once a week.
> Situation with latest 2.1 is unchanged. But maybe it's easier to fix/
> enhance now? Any estimate how much effort it would be?

Just about the same amount of work I think. I haven't really looked at virtual plugin for a while, so I can't easily say how much work it would be. But my guess is that it wouldn't be easy.




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