Re: [Dovecot] migration to maildir and arrival time

On 21.10.2004, at 14:18, Nicolas Kowalski wrote:

I have noticed that when I use the mailutil tool from uw-imap distribution to transfer my IMAP mailboxes from our current server (uw-imap, mbx format) to the dovecot one, the mails arrival time are apparently lost. I can see this in Pine, using the Arrival sort: the mailboxes on the originating server and dovecot server are not ordered the same. If I use the mb2md perl script to transfer the same mailbox, I see the same behaviour.

Is this normal ?

Dovecot gets the arrival time from maildir file's modification timestamp. If your scripts don't set that correctly, that's the problem.