Documentation update

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Thu Apr 18 09:23:45 EEST 2019


On 17.4.2019 15.17, azurit--- via dovecot wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> this page needs to be updated:
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir#Control_files
>
> (link was from here: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation)
>
> Section 'Control files' is mentioning only 2 files but, in fact,
> Dovecot will store some additional files in CONTROL location:
> dovecot-uidvalidity
> dovecot-uidvalidity.*

This is already documented there.

> subscriptions

This is controlled with 'SUBSCRIPTIONS' mail location setting, see
https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation, it is not Maildir *specific* file.


> (anything more?)
>
> Even more, page https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation has missing
> note to CONTROL files location about storing files 'dovecot-uidlist'
> and 'dovecot-keywords' of INBOX inside .INBOX directory instead of
> root directory (as it's stored inside mailbox).
>
It's just not repeating the same thing. It says "location of control
files" and links to Maildir

> Missing anything from above will cause re-downloading of all e-mails
> by e-mail clients!
>
Except subscriptions.


> And finally, i'm attaching a Python script which will safely copy/move
> CONTROL files from mail_location to new location (btw, moving it on
> SSD storage caused quite high performance boost in our environment).
>
Thanks.


> azur
>

Aki



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