[Dovecot] migrating to dovecot

Alexandre Chapellon a.chapellon at horoa.net
Wed Mar 30 17:10:53 EEST 2011


Ok thanks for all thoose informations, As Jim asid, Now I have to give
it a try and see. what happens.

Le mercredi 30 mars 2011 à 17:07 +0300, Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> On 30.3.2011, at 16.48, Jim Lawson wrote:
> 
> >> But will imapsync keep trac of UIDs so users won't have have duplicated
> >> messages or re-download them if they use POP3?
> 
> IMAP protocol doesn't know anything about POP3 UIDLs. They might or might not be based on IMAP UIDs.
> 
> > I don't think so.  The sync happens via IMAP, and I don't think IMAP
> > clients can *set* UIDs of messages; only the server does this (someone
> > please correct me if I'm mistaken.)
> 
> That too. Although Dovecot v2.1's dsync + imapc backend can migrate mails and preserve IMAP UIDs, but even it can't preserve POP3 UIDLs at least currently (that would also require POP3 client code for Dovecot..)
> 

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