[Dovecot] Hardlinks in copy

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Aug 12 23:41:13 EEST 2003


On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 23:24 Europe/Helsinki, Andreas Aardal 
Hanssen wrote:

> When a file is linked, the mtime is naturally kept on the destination.
> This gives the destination message the same internaldate as the 
> original.
> The destination mailbox would then be likely to get an arrival with an
> earlier internaldate than its newest message.

Internaldate should be preserved while copying in any case.

>  The IMAP protocol says to
> bump UIDVALIDITY when this happens.

Where?



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