[Dovecot] Re: Small change to make dovecot pop3uw-imapmigrationfriendly

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun May 30 01:20:31 EEST 2004


On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 20:56, Matthias Andree wrote:
> "Oleg I. Vdovikin" <oleg at cs.msu.su> writes:
> 
> >     Yes, but I need at least transparent migration from uw-imap to dovecot.
> 
> We need transparent migration from any server, not just from UW Imap. It
> can be a Perl/Python/Whatever script - it only runs one if Dovecot
> stores the UIDLs in a file.

Would it be enough if Dovecot simply used "X-POP3-UID" (or something)
header which contains the UID for the old server? That would have to be
generated using some script though.

If the header doesn't exist, Dovecot would use it's internal method.

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