[Dovecot] courier-dovecot-migrate.pl destroyed my indices... still recovering...

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Thu Aug 9 16:35:52 EEST 2007


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> If you had run Dovecot as IMAP server, then it wasn't such a great idea
> to run the migration, because it recreates dovecot-uidlist files trying
> to make them compatible with Courier's POP3 uidlist file.

Oops.
 
> Creating dovecot-uidlist then caused the UIDVALIDITY to change, which
> causes IMAP clients to redownload all messages, and as you can see
> Dovecot doesn't handle UIDVALIDITY changes all that nicely. v1.1 does a
> better job with it though.

So, is there a way to migrate WITHOUT all my pop3 users re-downloading
everything?

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