[Dovecot] Fwd: Received dates problem in Outlook after migration

[James Wyper]

Having looked at this again, I think I have a hypothesis:

1.  Outlook is ignoring the date/timestamps on the files in my Maildirs
2.  The file names of my transferred files follow a similar pattern
(they start with near-identical numbers)
3.   Dovecot's file naming scheme for mails must relate somehow to the
date that they were created / transferred / received
4.   If I can therefore **rename** the files correctly to reflect their
sending date then I can fix my problem

Does this make sense?  Can anyone point me in the direction of a spec
that says how Dovecot names its files? 

Thanks,
James.

--- James Wyper  wrote:

> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:47:02 +0100 (BST)
> From: James Wyper 
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: [Dovecot] Received dates problem in Outlook after migration
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've just started using 1.0-beta3 on Ubuntu Dapper, having migrated
> from an mbox / UW-IMAP combination to a Maildir / Dovecot one.  For
> some reason the mb2md tool failed to recognise some of my mbox files
> as
> valid ones, so I migrated my email by running UW-IMAP, copying my
> folders to local storage in Evolution, then running Dovecot instead
> and
> copying the folders back.
> 
> All seems OK, except that in Outlook 98 all the emails now have the
> date/time of their migration, not when they were received.  This
> isn't
> a problem in Thunderbird or Evolution - but my wife uses Outlook and
> doesn't wish to switch.
> 
> I've tried using touch to change the timestamps of the mails in my
> inbox (in ~/Maildir/cur) but this hasn't had any effect.  I've also
> tried deleting ~/Maildir/dovecot.index and
> ~/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache but this hasn't made any difference
> either.
> 
> Something else in dovecot must be being sent to Outlook as the date /
> time on these emails.  Can anyone suggest what it would be and how I
> might go about changing it (to, for example, the Received: date on
> the
> email header?).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> James.
> 
> 
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