SQUATTER script and non English folders

[David Carter]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, lkolchin at univ.haifa.ac.il 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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