Am 17.11.2013 19:27, schrieb LuKreme: > > On 17 Nov 2013, at 03:20 , Torbjorn Jansson > <torbjorn.jans...@mbox200.swipnet.se> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> i have recently moved a mailbox to dovecot and intend to use it via imap and >> i have run into a problem. >> >> when i imported the mails apparently the UID order got reversed compared to >> the date order, result is that some clients like on android devices download >> the oldest mails instead of newest. >> it is not so interesting to have several years old mail show up at the top >> of the mailbox. >> >> is there any way of convincing dovecot to renumber the mails by date order >> instead? > > Probably the easiest solution is to figure out what you did in the import to > cause this and reimport the mails. Short of that, the only thing you can do > (assuming you are using Maildir, right?) is to get the date out of the mail > and rewrite the filename with the correct epoch timestamp. > > It would be great if there was a way to use doveadm to do this, but short of > that you just have to fix it yourself. The good news is, with gnu date it’s > pretty simple. > > $ date --date='2013-11-17 01:23:45 +0700' +%s > 1384626225 > $ gdate --date='November 17, 2013 01:23:45 +0700' +%s > 1384626225 > $ gdate --date='17 Nov 2013 01:23:45 +0700' +%s > 1384626225 > >> i cant be the only one that have run into this. > > I had a similar problem, but I ignored it and as new mail came in, the > problem went away (mostly) on its own. :/ > >
http://www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst/ might be an idea too Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
