[Dovecot] UIDL question

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Nov 28 17:03:13 EET 2008


On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Wouter van der Schagt wrote:

>> Please look at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
>>
>> There's a modified version of mb2md.pl there that will keep the  
>> existing UIDL info.
>
> I look at it, it does indeed generate the ~/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist  
> file with
> the proper values, however my email client still retrieves a 2nd  
> copy in this
> test scenario
>
> - Download emails from postfix server
> - Migrate to other server
> - Download emails from new server (should not happen, due to same  
> uidl), but still does
>
> How can i further troubleshoot what the uidl problem is?

Look at the old UIDLs and look at the new UIDLs. How are they different?

My guess is you'll need to set pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u

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