On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:01 +1300, John Newman wrote:> We?ve been using dovecot in the lab now for quite a while and really
> like the results we?re seeing. Underlying dovecot we?re using maildir
> mailboxes. We have the need to manually remove maildir files from
> time to time. That is, by hand (we?ll, actually by script) but not
> via imap or pop. Dues to dovecot?s index caching (which I might add,
> we love most of the time) imap clients still continue to display the
> message once they?re gone (as we?d expect). However, in this instance
> it?s not what we?re after. So my question is, what is the ?dovecot
> recommended? way to force the index cache to regenerate. We really
> don?t want to delete the entire index cache for a particular mailbox
> as larger mailboxes will then need to unnecessarily regenerate indices
> on unaffected messages.
This was actually a bug that I just fixed. Dovecot notices the external
file deletions, there was just a small stupid bug (since September) that
caused it not to do anything about it.
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