[Dovecot] Doveadm search in public namespaces

Thomas Leuxner tlx at leuxner.net
Thu Dec 30 14:56:46 EET 2010


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Am 30.12.2010 um 13:43 schrieb Timo Sirainen:

>> It takes considerably longer when using 'mailbox-guid' compared to mailbox name, wonder why that is…
> 
> It's because there is no easy way to access mailbox GUIDs, so it has to
> open each mailbox and get its GUID.

Right. I wanted to use the GUIDs because they are spit out on searches. Guess will have to use names then if faster.

$ doveadm search -u user at domain.tld sentbefore 02-jan-2010 mailbox Public/Mailing-Lists/Dovecot
adeffe1c8b7ba64bb3770000a998a2df 1021
[…]

>> I'm also not sure why it would recursively mangle all
>> 'dovecot-uidlist' files within the namespace (it does in a public
>> maildir namespace). 
> 
> The mailbox GUID is stored in dovecot-uidlist file. If the mailbox
> doesn't already have a GUID, it's added there.

So if the mailbox would have a current index it would not rebuild it? In other words: Wouldn't the Dovecot Mailing-List be current as it gets updated on every new post presumably? It was also rebuilt...
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