[Dovecot] changing INTERNALDATE or similar

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jul 18, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Mateusz Kijowski wrote:

>>
>> Why does it matter where the timestamp lives? No matter how it was
>> stored, you would have had the exact same problem because your client
>> told Dovecot to use the current timestamp when saving the messages.
>>
>> And why would keeping the INTERNALDATE in mtime be bad? It only
>> changes if you write to the file. And existing mails must not be
>> modified or you'll get other problems as well.
>
> I guess that with the zlib plugin this date is extracted from the gzip
> metadata, right? I didn't preserve mtimes of gzipped mails...

I hadn't thought of that before. Yes, I should mention this in the  
wiki page that the mtime should be preserved.

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