[Dovecot] UID confusion

[Andrew Hutchings]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 28.6.2005, at 13:05, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
> 
>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>
>>> On 28.6.2005, at 11:39, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2 or 3 customers have reported that they are having problems 
>>>> downloading their mail via. POP3.  I have attached the rawlogs of 
>>>> their transactions and the UID list at the time.  Is this because I 
>>>> am using an incompatible UID format or is something else at fault?  
>>>> Deleting the UID list and indexes fixes the problem.  I am using 
>>>> Test72.
>>>
>>> Sounds a bit like the Thunderbird problem..
>>> ..
>>
>>
>> Sounds like it, but that client was Outlook 2003, and I have had a 
>> client using entourage with the same problem last week, it isn't a 
>> very common problem.
> 
> 
> Outlook 2003 (and I suppose Entourage too) doesn't handle Dovecot's 
> default POP3 UIDLs well. You should probably change them if you can. 
> That may have caused this bug as well.
> 
>   # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format 
> which is
>   # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a 
> good
>   # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe.

I was thinking of doing that and I'm sure there is a very good reason 
why I didn't.  Sod the users if they want to store mail they should use 
IMAP, change of UID time I think.
Quick question though, will a UID format change break anything 
considering there are 6000 mailboxes in use (apart from mail storing users)?

Regards
Andrew

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