Sami Ketola wrote: > > On 26 Sep 2018, at 13.07, Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@open-xchange.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> I have made mailboxes in ~/Mail available via IMAP (Dovecot 2.3.2.1), > >> that is: "mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" > >> > >> However, I often read and modify the mailboxes locally with Mutt (e.g. > >> append and delete mails). > >> > >> Should I expect any problems wit Dovecot indexes etc? What if I even > >> do "rm ~/Mail/some/mailbox", will Dovecot be mad at me? > >> > > > > Dovecot is tolerant to changes with mbox and maildir. It will reindex if > > it detects someone changing them outside.
That is good news! Thank you Aki! > > That is true but it however has performance impacts if the caching > is impaired but still does works. Ah, is this perhaps the reason why my Android IMAP client sometimes takes so long to list a folder's contents? I must have touched the folder locally by Mutt and Dovecot is reindexing, is that right? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/