[Dovecot] handling filename of compressed messages

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jan 14 15:20:21 EET 2010


On 14.1.2010, at 11.58, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:

>> In short: You want to rename
>> 1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207
>> to 1263436052.V6814I43300b4M146002.correio.domain.com.br,S=238207:2,Z
>>  
> 
>   got it .... so, basically, i shouldnt be using .gz at all, is that ok ?

Right. Don't change the base filename.

>   i understood that, when moving from new to cur, filename should be appended of ':2,'. But filenames on new, as i understood, should never be changed. As soon as they are read there (on new), they should be moved to cur.

Maildir spec says files in new/ shouldn't have the :2, part, but Dovecot is fine with it.


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