[Dovecot] Courier->Dovecot Migration Issue

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 11:26 -0500, Tony Rutherford wrote:
> > Well, with v1.1+ it's possible to preserve both POP3 and IMAP UIDs (each
> > line is <IMAP uid> P<POP3 UIDL> :<filename>). I guess the script doesn't
> > merge IMAP and POP3 messages well enough. Feel free to fix the script ;)
> 
> Yes, unless you're unfortunate enough to be supporting a non-standard
> legacy message name format based on uuidgen!

I've no idea what uuidgen is, but..

>     I did see the function where it attempts to compare based on the
> "standard" filename format...but again, unfortunately I have to deal
> with non-standard as well as the standard format :(

No, it works with everything with Dovecot v1.1+. Like it says above, you
can have in dovecot-uidlist:

1 Phello-world :12345.blah.host:2,

Now when opening such mailbox with POP3 and issuing UIDL command, you
actually get:

1 hello-world

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