[Dovecot] maildir/cur/ - file names

Geert Hendrickx ghen at telenet.be
Wed Jan 27 11:50:23 EET 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:45:09PM +0500, CoolAtt NNA wrote:
> 
> Hi All.
> 
> I want to know how filenames are changed by dovecot e,g more details on
> how it renames the files when a mail is read.
> 
> For read mails i found that it appends an S.
> 1264579250.P22376Q0M765148.ecs,S=1161:2 
> 1264579250.P22376Q0M765148.ecs,S=1161:2,S
> 
> Want to know if other modifications done in file names  in INBOX & in
> SENT (maildir/.Sent/cur)


Just read the specification, don't reverse engineer it. :-)


Original spec from qmail:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

Dovecot implementation notes:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir


	Geert


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