[Dovecot] How unimportant would be mailstore-tidy utility? :-)

Andrzej Adam Filip anfi at onet.eu
Mon Nov 16 20:19:54 EET 2009


Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 12:35 +0100, Halim Issa wrote:
>> One thing came to mind - would it be possible to use Dovecot and
>> Disconnected IMAP itself for the transfer, and perhaps thus keep the
>> indexes?
>> If I move the messages from the local mailbox to the IMAP mailbox from
>> within Kmail it should perhaps keep the status?
>> 
>> Also - is there any documentation anywhere (or tips on better google
>> search terms) on what is stored in these indexes? I suppose apart from
>> Read/New status, it also contains whether or not there have been
>> replies to the mail and on what date the email was replied to?
>
> I doubt you need to worry about the indexes. The messages' flag state
> should be stored in the maildir filenames, and I'd hope that kmail does
> that too.

How low on your list of priorities would land idea of utility 
"make-mailstore-tidy"? :-)

P.S.
I have "personal mail store" migrated from cyrus (by my own *ugly*
migration script) via maildir to dbox. I would like to convert all file
names to more "uniform" format before next migration I sure I will see
in a few years perspective :-)

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