From: Timo Sirainen Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:01:28 +0000 (+0300) Subject: We don't lose UIDs anymore if index is deleted. X-Git-Tag: 1.1.alpha1~4513 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d6e7d88d991da8a93234697588a796d0f7b7583;p=thirdparty%2Fdovecot%2Fcore.git We don't lose UIDs anymore if index is deleted. --HG-- branch : HEAD --- diff --git a/doc/mail-storages.txt b/doc/mail-storages.txt index 71f4ecd563..53bf1e1b96 100644 --- a/doc/mail-storages.txt +++ b/doc/mail-storages.txt @@ -117,12 +117,8 @@ Dovecots check to see if the file has changed. Other lines list the flags in format " ". Currently there can be 26 different flags (0..25). -.imap.index.log and .imap.index.tree files can be deleted without any data -loss, they're simply recreated/rebuilt when they're noticed missing. - -Deleting .imap.index and .imap.index.data files results in loss of message -UIDs. That may be a bad thing with some IMAP clients which store some data -about message locally and identifies the message by it's UID. +.imap.index* files can be deleted without any data loss, they're simply +recreated/rebuilt when they're noticed missing. Deleting .customflags results in loss of custom flag names for Maildir. With mbox the .customflags is simply recreated based on the flags listed