[Dovecot] Maildir files with mtime in the future

Ben Winslow rain at bluecherry.net
Fri Apr 3 17:59:38 EEST 2009


On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 01:14:47 +0200
Holger Weiss <holger at CIS.FU-Berlin.DE> wrote:

> I'd guess most backup software will include files with an mtime newer
> than the time of the previous backup in incremental backups.  At
> least, Bacula[*] and Veritas NetBackup do it that way.

Aren't IMAP messages supposed to be immutable?  If the actual message
is changed, it should reappear as a new file/message, and therefore be
backed up because it didn't exist in the previous backup run.

-- 
Ben Winslow <rain at bluecherry.net>


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