[Dovecot] UID order vs date order

[Torbjorn Jansson]

On 2013-11-17 15:17, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Am 17.11.2013 12:06, schrieb Torbjorn Jansson:
>> (tbird imports to "Local Folders" and not directly to imap)
>
> beside other dovecot solving ,this perhaps is the source of the problem,
> you have better choosen i.e imapsync or dsync on the server , is there a
> chance to retry your procedure with imapsync , which might be the
> fastest solution.

the problem is that the source mailbox was a local pst file.
i suspect both of those tools are for converting between existing imap 
accounts and/or mbox/maildir format and not pst file.

with a bit of trouble i can probably redo the import but i still don't 
know what i could have done differently to affect the sort order of the 
UID numbers.

only thing i can think of now is to take the dovecot-uidlist in each 
folder and then renumber them by taking the first "column" and reverse 
it (first value and last value gets swapped and so on)
probably not the right way but what other choice do i have?