[Dovecot] Bug: Fixed a duplicate

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 11:46 +0200, Tom Sommer wrote:
> 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?

The timestamp is preserved. If you sort the messages by "received date",
they are in the same order.