[Dovecot] bidirectional synchronization of dovecot-managed maildirs

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 16:11 +0100, James Leifer wrote:
> * offlineimap treats a message refile between folders as a
>   delete-plus-resend;

What other way is there to treat it? IMAP doesn't track message copies
across folders in any case.

> In particular, the "uniq" field of a maildir filename is an easy way
> of tracking the identity of a message as it gets refiled.  My
> question: would it be difficult to patch dovecot so that it maintained
> the *same* uniq when copying messages between folders?

I don't think it's a good idea. Then copying a message into folder,
setting a flag for it, and copying the same message there again would
create maildir file with duplicate unique part.

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