[Dovecot] Mixed Courier POP3 and Dovecot IMAP environment

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Sep 30 15:08:27 EEST 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:29 +0200, Jan van den Berg wrote:
> -          "Patch" the source so Dovecot IMAP will look for/use
> 'courierimapuiddb' instead of 'dovecot-uidlist': otherwise I guess POP3
> and IMAP users will have different UID files, right? Is this smart or
> will this still break the UID file?

Courier POP3 uses courierpop3uiddb (or something) file for POP3 UIDLs.
Unless you're using a really old Courier version.

> I'm thinking about patching so the transition can be as transparent as
> possible: Also if anything might go wrong in production I want to be
> able to switch back to the 'old' Courier IMAP (without renaming files
> etc.)

I guess then you want to rename dovecot-uidlist. Courier's keyword
implementation is also different from Dovecot.

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