On Tue, 1 May 2018, at 04:12, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 30/04/2018 à 08:30:44+0200, Robert Stepanek a écrit >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, at 15:48, Albert Shih wrote: >>> I activated squatter but put the index not on ssd. The index >>> created by squatter are (in my case) about 5-8% of the size of >>> the mailbox. >>> >>> But I got lot of « conversation » index. What's the purpose >>> of those « conversations » ? >> >> conversations.db initially was used to keep an index of email >> conversations (e.g. the threaded views typically found in most email>> >> readers nowadays). But today it also helps for most use-cases where >> we need to keep track of messages across mailboxes (e.g. if you have>> two >> copies of an email in two mailboxes, you'll see that reflected in>> >> conversations.db). It confusingly is still named conversations.db for>> >> historic reasons. But for any recent (v3) Cyrus IMAP installation, >> including Xapian and JMAP, it's a very critical piece in the puzzle.> > Ok. Thanks you. > > Still one question, I see in the configuration file > > conversations_expire_days : 90 > > why do I need to keep those information during 90 days ? For > example what> would be the impact if I say > > conversations_expire_days : 7 >
The bit which is expired is the mapping from message-id(s) to conversation id. If you set it to 7 days, then if you receive a reply to an existing message more than a week later, it won't detect that they are related. Cheers, Bron. -- Bron Gondwana, CEO, FastMail Pty Ltd br...@fastmailteam.com
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