Re: [SLUG] Paging IMAP gurus

[david <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 15:36 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="James Gray">
> 
> > Given that my IMAP store is maildir, is  there any problem with simply
> > deleting the messages straight from the  maildir?  Or is there some sort
> > of referential integrity checking  that I need to maintain within maildir?
> 
> No problems at all - and with Maildir, you can do it with a simple find(1).
> The only thing it will impact is the IMAP server's folder caching, but your
> IMAP server will grok the change and adapt.
> 

I have a Maildir folder that  I just empty manually on a regular basis
and I've not had any issues.