Adding namespace alias_for causes index resync?

Tom Sommer mail at tomsommer.dk
Wed Sep 12 19:21:39 EEST 2018


On 2018-09-12 16:54, Tom Sommer wrote:
> I just added a new namespace-alias with alias_for.
> 
> Apparently this causes all mailbox indexes to be resynced? Is this
> intentional and/or is there some way to avoid this? My NFS storage
> pretty much kills itself when hundreds of thousands of users needs to
> resync indexes :)

Also when removing the alias_for namespace, I have to run a "doveadm 
force-resync" on the account?

I thought alias_for would be non-destructive to current users?

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Tom


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