> For the future, I've been thinking that there should be an automated upgrade > program, or at least some feature of dbmail-maintenance to ensure that the > tables are well formed for the current release. > > Once there's code to understand the is_header flag, we'll need an upgrade > program that cycles through the database and adds the flag to earlier > messages. I think it would be better to do off-line than to do as part of > message retrieval; the way that dbmail-imapd recalculates rfcsize on the fly > in several different places in the ic_fetch function is an anti-pattern. For this specific change, you could run the old pop3/imap daemons with the new injection code (that sets isheader on all new messages), then run your fixup on the live data, and upgrade pop3/imap afterwards. That won't work for all changes, of course.
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