Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 11:31 -0500, Tony Rutherford wrote:
The last three entries exist in the Courier IMAP file, but NOT the Courier
POP file. The resulting dovecot-uidlist format is different, but to be
honest, I haven't been able to find the exact specification for the format
of the dovecot-uidlist file (if it exists).
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During the migration, it appears that the emphasis is placed on
maintaining the Pop3 message sequence...at the cost of possibly changing
IMAP UIDs.
Well, with v1.1+ it's possible to preserve both POP3 and IMAP UIDs (each
line is <IMAP uid> P<POP3 UIDL> :<filename>). I guess the script doesn't
merge IMAP and POP3 messages well enough. Feel free to fix the script ;)
Here's a question though. If the dovecot-uidlist file is deleted (for
whatever reason), it gets rebuilt by Dovecot. But, how does it get
rebuilt? It does not appear to generate uids based on the date of
messages...I believe that to be true. Is there any flag/option in
Dovecot to build the uidlist file based on message date (uids ordered by
date)?
The added mails are ordered by their filename. The filename typically
begins with timestamp of when the message was received, so it's
practically in the same order as mails were received.
Yes, unless you're unfortunate enough to be supporting a non-standard legacy message name
format based on uuidgen! I did see the function where it attempts to compare based on
the "standard" filename format...but again, unfortunately I have to deal with
non-standard as well as the standard format :(
Thanks,
Tony
