Re: header_cache database always growing

[Nicolas KOWALSKI <niko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:37:22AM +0100, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
>
>> I have noticed that the headers databases are always growing, even if 
>> I delete mails.
>
> Here it's important from where you delete them. When you delete them 
> within mutt using that header cache, it should remove those entries 
> (mutt doesn't sync the hcache to changes using other tools).

I delete these mails within mutt.

> A workaround could either be to try using qdbm as backend (if your 
> version supports it) and set header_cache_compress to reduce disk 
> size. Or you could remove those index files from time to time and have 
> mutt refetch headers.

So, I have to use the latter. My mail store is not so huge, so this will 
not hurt much.


Thanks for your reply,
-- 
Nicolas