Documentation update

azurit at pobox.sk
2019-04-17T12:17:39Z

Hi guys,

this page needs to be updated:
https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir#Control_files

(link was from here: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation)

Section 'Control files' is mentioning only 2 files but, in fact,
Dovecot will store some additional files in CONTROL location:
dovecot-uidvalidity
dovecot-uidvalidity.*
subscriptions
(anything more?)

Even more, page https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation has missing
note to CONTROL files location about storing files 'dovecot-uidlist'
and 'dovecot-keywords' of INBOX inside .INBOX directory instead of
root directory (as it's stored inside mailbox).

Missing anything from above will cause re-downloading of all e-mails
by e-mail clients!

And finally, i'm attaching a Python script which will safely copy/move
CONTROL files from mail_location to new location (btw, moving it on
SSD storage caused quite high performance boost in our environment).

azur

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