[Dovecot] Bug: Fixed a duplicate

[Tom Sommer]

On Fri, June 3, 2011 15:00, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 21:16 +0200, Tom Sommer wrote:
>
>> I restored a dovecot mailserver today, and when I started the server
>> again, the logs filled up with "Fixed a duplicate" warnings.
>>
>> This in itself it not a problem, the problem is that it appears the fix
>>  is not done correct.
>
> You shouldn't have restored an old maildir on top of an existing
> maildir. That is the main problem. The same mails had different flags
> (=different filenames), and Dovecot just renamed one of the files to
> make sure no mails got accidentally lost. In your case it should have just
> deleted the duplicates, but there's no such feature yet. Dovecot works
> exactly as intended here. The full explanation is more complex than I want
> to type right now.

Would it be possible to set the correct timestamp on the renamed files, so
the timestamp remains the same as on the original?

// Tom