what happens when cyrus.squat is old?

[Rob Mueller]

> it seems that running squatter nightly on all mailboxes takes too long for
> us.  I'm thinking of splitting the mailboxes over different nights or 
> doing
> the job over the weekend.

Are you using the new incremental mode david carter added?

-i     Incremental updates where squat indexes already exist.

> One question though, what happens when a cyrus.squat file is out of date
> (ie the mailbox has been changed due to mails added/removed from the
> mailbox).  Does it
>
> - use the index for what it can and then look directly at the remaining
>   emails?

Yes, it does this.

Which is nice, because it means if the index isn't up to date, your searches 
still work correctly, just slower.

Rob