The wiki says:

> Each mailbox has its own separate index files. **If the index files are 
> disabled**, the same structures are still kept in the memory, except cache 
> file is disabled completely (because the client probably won't fetch the same 
> data twice within a connection). [1]

I tend to grep my maildirs quite often, and use the output to cp emails to 
other folders, so it's annoying when the dovecot.index.cache files show up in 
the results.

How do I disable the index files, please? 

My mail server is hardly loaded, so I don't think it'll be a problem to keep 
the caching in memory.

I can find `mailbox_list_index = no` in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf but 
this seems to be enabled by default, and it makes no difference when I enable 
it explicitly - deleted dovecot.index.cache are recreated when Dovecot is 
restarted. The setting `mbox_min_index_size` tends to suggests it's only for 
mbox files, not maildirs?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,

Stroller.





[1] https://wiki.dovecot.org/IndexFiles


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