dovecot.index.log files: what are they?

[Thomas Klausner]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have lots of these files:
> 
> /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log
> 
> What are they for?
> Why are they here?
> Can I remove them?

This was a by-product of dovecot thinking that I had mbox mailboxes,
while they were maildir mailboxes. So dovecot created one of these
_for every single mail_, which is why I had so many of them.
 Thomas