Re: dovecot.index.log files: what are they?
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: > Hi! > > I have lots of these files: > > /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log > > What are they for? > Why are they here? > Can I remove them? This was a by-product of dovecot thinking that I had mbox mailboxes, while they were maildir mailboxes. So dovecot created one of these _for every single mail_, which is why I had so many of them. Thomas
Re: dovecot.index.log files: what are they?
Thomas Klausner writes: RTFM: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles Thanks, but I had read this. I still don't know what they are good for, why they stay there for days and if I can remove them. After all, they are not the caches, but some "transaction logs" (I don't know what this is). Re-read the page, all the way to the bottom. Interpreting the last section: The transaction log records recent changes to a mailbox, and together with the index, gives the current state of the mailbox. This is an I/O optimization so that mailbox states changes are quickly updated without having to compare an entire index file with the last (in-memory?) index. For large mailboxes, this can save a lot of I/O. It may persist because updates to the indices are not done immediately (again, possibly to reduce I/O), so the current mailbox state is reflected by the index file *and* deltas in the transaction log. I suspect that you could remove the transaction logs (if you do not use dbox) and dovecot should rebuild them (or more likely, rebuild the indices). Joseph Tam
Re: dovecot.index.log files: what are they?
Am 10.12.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Thomas Klausner: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner: I have lots of these files: /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them? RTFM: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles Thanks, but I had read this. I still don't know what they are good for, why they stay there for days and if I can remove them. After all, they are not the caches, but some "transaction logs" (I don't know what this is) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_log why don't you just keep your fingers from data maintained by a server application? it's not your business to touch them signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: dovecot.index.log files: what are they?
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner: > >I have lots of these files: > > > >/home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log > > > >What are they for? > >Why are they here? > >Can I remove them? > > RTFM: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles Thanks, but I had read this. I still don't know what they are good for, why they stay there for days and if I can remove them. After all, they are not the caches, but some "transaction logs" (I don't know what this is). Thomas
Re: dovecot.index.log files: what are they?
Am 10.12.2014 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Klausner: I have lots of these files: /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them? RTFM: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/IndexFiles https://www.google.at/search?q=dovecot.index.log signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
dovecot.index.log files: what are they?
Hi! I have lots of these files: /home/wiz/Mail/my-folder-name/cur/.imap/1238738125.13533_23713.danbala:2,S/dovecot.index.log What are they for? Why are they here? Can I remove them? Thomas
