-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:28:42AM +0000, Richard Hobbs wrote:
[...] > > Only dovecot 'deliver' will update the index on delivery. > > Do does this mean that it's slightly slower to actually deliver the mail > with dovecot (because it's writing two places instead of one), but it > saves the files having to be indexed again, so overall potentially faster? Things get re-indexed on client request if Dovecot sees that index is stale. So you are buying faster response times for clients with somewhat higher server load at mail delivery. I don't know how this piecemeal update of the index stacks up against a complete re-index, but I'd assume it to be more efficient (only having to do new mails instead of whole mailbox). Still, I find the re-index to be almost instantaneous on not-so-small mailboxes (hundreds of MB) and fairly modest hardware, by today's standards. Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKDVeEBcgs9XrR2kYRAtBGAJ4zHYA23C5SxJRcS5khH5cskZGfSACdFs3r 7tmWdF5ShGkTOiqVXWQIYjs= =swId -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
