[Dovecot] Maildir files with mtime in the future
Holger Weiss
holger at CIS.FU-Berlin.DE
Fri Apr 3 03:09:03 EEST 2009
* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> [2009-04-02 19:35]:
> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 01:14 +0200, Holger Weiss wrote:
> > > This is a problem only with Maildir, so if the code is added it should
> > > go to maildir-save.c.
> >
> > The mtime-problem is Maildir-specific, but an INTERNALDATE in the future
> > is obviously incorrect in any case.
>
> Not necessarily. Although I guess it's always some kind of a
> misconfiguration in that case. Like if server's time isn't correct.
Yes, but I guess the code should simply assume the server's time is
correct (or things may go south).
> Or maybe client wants to live in future. :)
True, you never know ... :-)
> I'll ask in imap list what others think about it.
Thanks a lot!
Holger
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