squatter best practices

[Craig Ringer]

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 03:36, Jim Howell wrote:
> Hi,
>          I'm running a Solaris 8 system with Cyrus 2.1.11.

2.1.14 here, on an increasingly heavily modified Red Hat Linux 8 system.

> We have an 
> occasional report where doing an IMAP search causes the session to abruptly 
> end.  Re-running squatter on that mailbox helps.  So I have some questions.
> Does anyone actually run squatter on an on-going basis?

I run it daily on user INBOXes, and on the 'user.$username.archive'
folder if it exists for a particular user. I also run it daily on all my
mailing list archives. I have not encountered any problems whatsoever.

> If you do run it on an on-going basis, how often do you run it?

Via cron, using a simple shell script.

Craig Ringer

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