[Dovecot] invalid mbox files

[Harout S. Hedeshian]

Timo Sirainen wrote ..
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote:
> > Timo Sirainen wrote ..
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote:
> > > > > From someone at somewhere  Wed Jan  5 09:03:48 2005
> > > ..
> > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18
> > > 
> > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that
> > > kind of a timestamp. 
> > 
> > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva.
> Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves?
> My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail,
> and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files,
> and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix:
> 
> It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as
> 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set
> the received-time of mails wrong.
> 
> > > I suppose I could add support for it..
> > 
> > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good
> idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually
> in order to use dovecot.
> 
> Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format.

Okay. Thanks. I will try getting the CVS version.

Harout Hedeshian