[Dovecot] Inbox re-initialized

[Joshua, C.S. Chen]

This seems to be important to my problem. But I have no idea what it
means by 'migrating the message uid'. Could soneone give me a hint and
how to do that? I am using mbox format both in uw-imap and the current
dovecot.


Cheers
Joshua



Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Saturday, August 11 at 02:26 AM, quoth Joshua, C.S. Chen:
>> I just replaced my mail server's UW-imap with dovecot yesterday.
>
>> For outlook express users, when they come in the office, the first
>> time they launch outlook express, they found that the previous Inbox
>> is re-transmitted.
>
> You need to migrate all the message UID's. Without them, dovecot
> generates new ones, which makes the client think that all the messages
> are new.
>
>> (so some users got 3X or even 4X the past e-mails).
>
> I can't imagine why that would be...
>
> ~Kyle