[Dovecot] Maildir files with mtime in the future

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:36 +0200, Holger Weiss wrote:
> However, if the client does so, Dovecot will set the mtime of the
> Maildir file in question to the date specified by the client even if
> it's in the future.  Since files with an mtime in the future can cause
> all sorts of trouble (e.g., they might get backed up repeatedly by
> incremental backups), it would be nice if Dovecot would (optionally?)
> use the current time if the client specifies a time in the future.  For
> example, we use the following patch:

Committed the patch, but forgot to add your name to the commit message,
sorry. :( I also changed it so that it allows times 2 hours into the
future (I'm not sure why I chose exactly 2 hours).
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