Timo Sirainen wrote: > But since there's still a chance that index files could break (although > v1.1 tries harder than v1.0 to fix problems), it would be nice if the > flags/keywords were written to metadata block once in a while. So if the > index files are lost, flag changes wouldn't be completely lost. Metadata > updates of course use disk I/O so they shouldn't be done too often. > > I was thinking that the metadata could be updated: > > - if IMAP connection has been idling for 4 hours (not changing flags) > - when closing mailbox and there are changes older than 4h > - immediately if there are changes older than 24h (whenever mailbox is > being synced, e.g. SELECT/NOOP/STATUS) > > Or something like that. Those rules can of course be changed, but I'm > not sure if I should bother making them configurable from dovecot.conf. > There are already too many settings.
what about a maintanance srcipt/daemon which can be run from cron and every sysadm can decided when and how often he'd like to update metadatas? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
