On Jan 8, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
I migrated my third system from courier to dovecot. My previous two were MacOSX the third is FreeBSD 6. I noticed (because of an rsync process taking longer than usual...) that on FreeBSD the message files have, most of them at least, gained extra suffix letters (in the range a-h I'd say) that I do not see (mostly if not at all) on my MacOS systems.
a-z letters are for IMAP keywords (aka labels aka custom flags). Not all clients use them at all, which is why you may not see them for all users.