Copies/duplicates of Dovecot indices

In my setup, I put mail indices outside the user's mailbox locations
(user mailboxs are NFS, indices stored local attached storage).

I notice that sometimes, there are 2 sets of indices representing the
same mailbox: one at top level, one underneath .imap/.  (They usually
appear in the latter.)   For example, if I have the configuration

 	(Dovcot version 3.2.21)
 	mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/nfs/mail/%n:INDEX=/cache/%n

I see for a particular user

 	[1] drwx------   5 user     group      512 Feb 22 21:56 /cache/user/box
 	[2] drwxr-xr-x   5 user     group      512 Feb 22 21:46 /cache/user/.imap/box

cooresponding to their mailbox in ~user/mail/box.  Each of these have the
dovecot.* index files.

If I delete [1], it comes back.  The timestamps are close to each other
so both sets are being used, possibly by different clients.

Another quirky discovery is 2 /.imap/ folders beneath each other e.g.

 	/cache/user/.imap/folder1/folder2/.imap/box/dovecot.index

What determines which index pathname gets created or used?

Joseph Tam <[email protected]>
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