At 1:17 AM +0300 6/13/08, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:10 -0400, Bill Cole wrote:
[...]
However, I DO clobber the dovecot-uidlist in .Trash as part of my
monthly housekeeping because it tends to get very large
All the expunged messages get removed from it the next time a new
message is added to the mailbox. So there should be no need to delete
it. (v1.1 doesn't always recreate the file, but it gets rewritten if the
resulting file would be 70% of the current size or less.)
I confess to running 1.0.0, which apparently lacks this bit of housekeeping.
At the moment I have no messages in my Trash folder (so there are no
files in ~/Maildir/.Trash/cur) and ~Maildir/.Trash/dovecot-uidlist
has 10273 lines, and the first messages listed are nowhere to be
found anywhere under Maildir. A quick scan of Maildir shows that of
14 logical folders including the inbox, 6 have dovecot-uidlist files
whose linecount is greater than the number of files in cur plus one.
Looking at which directories have oversized dovecot-uidlist files, it
seems like they are the ones that do not get direct deliveries of new
mail but only receive messages by an IMAP client shuffling messages
around.
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Bill Cole
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