[Dovecot] POP - preventing re-download with server move

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 14:46 +0000, Trutwin, Joshua wrote:

> So now I have to move my sites to a new server and I'm trying to
> avoid having all these messages re-downloaded by POP clients.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration#POP3_migration explains this.

> The mail is stored in Maildirs - a sample file: 1280409166.23580.foo:2,S
> 
> If I move this to server "bar" would renaming the file to
> 1280409166.23580.bar:2,S prevent this somehow?

That can only make things worse.