On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:49 -0700, Dann Daggett wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am new to dovecot, using ver 1.0.13 and IMAP with ~/Maildir delivery. > I have noticed that the entries in the dovecot-uidlist files don't seem > to get updated when an email is deleted or moved to .Trash. It appears > that this list list would just keep growing over time, being full of no > longer used filenames, and must tend to increase its processing > overhead.
The deleted entries are removed when a new message arrives to the mailbox. So it's just an optimization not to waste disk I/O on rewriting the file when it's not necessary. If this isn't happening, there's something wrong or you're misunderstanding something. > I have also noticed that if I manually delete that file and the 3 other > dovecot* files, that it gets rebuilt with only what's present. Sure, but that also causes clients to see them as new messages and redownload them.
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