[dovecot] Re: message order reversed on copying

[Charlie Brady]

On 6 Apr 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 22:12, Charlie Brady wrote:
> > 
> > You shouldn't need to do that. All you need to do is to sort the new 
> > message files (by name or by mtime - by name will be faster), before 
> > processing them.
> 
> Yes, well, that does it too :)
> 
> > +  nfiles = scandir (tmp, &names, NULL, maildir_namesort);
> 
> scandir() isn't portable though.

No? Which OS doesn't have it?

> > As a workaround, Kimura, you can delete dovecot's .imap.* index files, and 
> > the new UIDs will be sorted again - until next time.
> 
> Which changes UIDVALIDITY and forces clients to discard their cache.

Yes, I could have mentioned that. Still, it's the only way I know to 
restore the sorting order once it's jumbled.

> Not too good idea. Pretty much the same as just disabling the index
> files.

No, because after you fix the problem the indexes will be usable again.
But until then, you are right :-)

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Charlie