[Bug] Mailbox aliases still broken

[Aki Tuomi]

On 20.09.2016 12:51, azurit at pobox.sk wrote:
>> On 18 Sep 2016, at 21:49, azurit at pobox.sk wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> about an year ago i was reporting a bug in mailbox aliases, which
>>> remains unfixed and unasnwered (probably totally ignored, don't
>>> understand why). I thought it was because the bug is old and already
>>> fixed but yesterday i upgraded to Dovecot 2.2.24 and problem persists.
>>>
>>> Here is the original report, everything, except the Dovecot version,
>>> is still correct:
>>> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2015-June/101176.html
>>>
>>> Will this be fixed? Thanks for info.
>>
>> Do you have mailbox_list_index=yes? That's at least buggy with
>> aliases and the fix isn't easy.
>
>
> Yes, i have. Do i need to disable it? What impact will it have?

For mailbox aliases to work, yes. It will stop using index file for
mailbox lists, which can slightly degrade performance.

Aki