Disabling index files?

[Marcus Rückert]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:53:45 +0000
Stroller <stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> The wiki says:
> 
> > Each mailbox has its own separate index files. **If the index files
> > are disabled**, the same structures are still kept in the memory,
> > except cache file is disabled completely (because the client
> > probably won't fetch the same data twice within a connection). [1]  
> 
> I tend to grep my maildirs quite often, and use the output to cp
> emails to other folders, so it's annoying when the
> dovecot.index.cache files show up in the results.
> 
> How do I disable the index files, please? 
> 
> My mail server is hardly loaded, so I don't think it'll be a problem
> to keep the caching in memory.
> 
> I can find `mailbox_list_index = no`
> in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf but this seems to be enabled by
> default, and it makes no difference when I enable it explicitly -
> deleted dovecot.index.cache are recreated when Dovecot is restarted.
> The setting `mbox_min_index_size` tends to suggests it's only for
> mbox files, not maildirs?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,

hint: try server side search with your imap client. for me it beats
grep easily. Personally I just use the clucene based FTS and it
searches even mailboxes with 300-500k mails within single digit seconds.

   darix

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