Hi list, I just encountered a problem while using dovecot's Virtual plugin with 2.3.0. I managed to solve the issue, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of others on the list to see if there exists a better solution, if I found a bug, or if it's just a matter of updating documentation.
I have a virtual folder to get the most recent two weeks of mails; it looks something like this: > INBOX > all younger 1209600 I made this folder back in October. Lately, I started to notice that the virtual folder had a surprising amount of mail in it - I don't get 1,000 e-mails per week! After some doveadm commands, I realized that e-mails from October were still present in my virtual folder! Updating the dovecot-virtual would clear away e-mails older than two weeks (I needed to actually introduce a change, even if it was just whitespace - just touching the file didn't update things), and removing the dovecot index file also cleared things away. In then end, I ended up just telling dovecot to disable on-disk indexes for that folder. I created this folder based on the examples on https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual - I'm wondering if I found a bug or if that page should be changed to recommend disabling on-disk indexes when using certain search query filters such as "younger". If the latter, I can always make the change - just let me know! -Rob
