On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 11:32 +0200, Lars Johansen wrote: > I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the > conversion works correctly, but users gets duplicates since they > selected "keep mail on server" > > I have googled for the problem, and set > pop3_reuse_xuidl=yes > and > pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv is the same on both servers.. but no luck. > > My first tought was to script in an X-UIDL header for each mail that > was converted.. but that wont work since the mail already downloaded by > the client didnt contain that header..
It doesn't matter if the client hasn't seen the X-UIDL header, because it's Dovecot that uses it. The problem is anyway that your mbox -> maildir conversion didn't preserve the UIDVALIDITY and UIDs. I'm not aware of any existing conversion script that can preserve them.
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