[Dovecot] Courier->Dovecot Migration Issue

[Tony Rutherford]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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
>
>   
uuidgen generates a random unique identifier with no way of gathering a 
date/time stamp from it.  Here's an example filename: 
"ffad8168_ce4b_4d25_a54d_290ed9b3a7f6:2,S"  It's not ideal for many, 
many reasons...

Tony