[Dovecot] Script: Moving Maildirs between servers

Jose Celestino japc at co.sapo.pt
Thu Feb 5 02:02:54 EET 2009


Words by Giuliano Gavazzi [Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:51:28AM +0100]:
>
> On T 5 Feb, 2009, at 00:13 , Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> For Maildir message files incomplete messages aren't just unlikely,
>> they're never possible.
>
> I was implying Maildir of course. I am not familiar with the  
> specification though. Does it require files to be written initially in  
> tmp to be moved in new once complete?

Yes. Must be atomic.

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