On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting, when I use webinterface (IMP or Squirremail) after I've finished
to run squatter I got this message:
imap[15835]: SQUAT returned 45 messages
But after a while, when I got new messages in this account, I've got
this message: imap[16924]: SQUAT returned 46 messages
squat is just a first approximation to narrow down the search. After imapd
gets a list of messages from squat it has to search the messages to find
out which ones are genuine matches. Any messages appearing after the squat
index was generated are automatically included as potential matches:
imap/search_engines.c:
/* Add in any unindexed messages. They must be searched manually. */
for (i = 0; i < vlen; i++) {
msg_vector[i] |= unindexed_vector[i];
}
Does it mean that cyrus.squat file has been updated automatically, even
before I've run "squatter -r user" again? If so, why should I run
"squatter -r user" on regular basis?
The squat indexes are just a snapshot of the state of a given mailbox. As
that mailbox changes imapd will have to work harder to search messages not
covered by the index.
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