[Dovecot] mbox to maildir conversion does not work

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 13:02 -0500, Scott Bruce wrote:
> I'm trying to migrate from qpopper pop3 to dovecot pop3, which works 
> with  no problems, using the 'pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes' setting. And
> 'mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u'. At this point no email 
> is downloaded twice.
> 
> But when I go to convert the /var/mail/%u to /var/imap/%u/.imap/, using
> the convert mail plugin, only the mail the has been delivered once 
> before using the dovecot pop3 deamon is been sent again, not the email 
> that was set using the qpopper deamon. All of the mail is being converted.
> 
> Do you know why this would be?

Did you verify that X-UIDL: headers still exist in the maildir files?
Did you check if UIDL command uses them? I just tested that it worked
with me.

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