Brandon Lamb put forth on 7/18/2010 2:22 AM: > It didnt really click until I had a "ls -ald *" on watch while I moved > messages around folders using mdbox... I moved about 200 first to an > Archive folder, and scratched my head wondering why i didnt see any > new m.* files being created after the move. So then I moved some 5k > other messages from other folders to my archive folder... > > Then it dawned on me, how damn cool, the data never changes, dovecot > just updates its index of what folder the message is in?! > > That is awesome!
What happens when these indexes become corrupted, get accidentally deleted, or have the permissions accidentally changed in a way that they become unreadable by Dovecot? Does Dovecot still report the messages as being in the correct folder? -- Stan
