Hi! I have lots of these files: /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them? Thomas
Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner:> I have lots of these files: > > /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log > > What are they for? > Why are they here? > Can I remove them?RTFM: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles https://www.google.at/search?q=dovecot.index.log -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 181 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20141210/9cbf21b1/attachment.sig>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:> > Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner: > >I have lots of these files: > > > >/home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log > > > >What are they for? > >Why are they here? > >Can I remove them? > > RTFM: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFilesThanks, but I had read this. I still don't know what they are good for, why they stay there for days and if I can remove them. After all, they are not the caches, but some "transaction logs" (I don't know what this is). Thomas
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:> Hi! > > I have lots of these files: > > /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log > > What are they for? > Why are they here? > Can I remove them?This was a by-product of dovecot thinking that I had mbox mailboxes, while they were maildir mailboxes. So dovecot created one of these _for every single mail_, which is why I had so many of them. Thomas