On 11/17/2005 10:12:07 PM, Stephen Allen wrote:
I've recovered a load of messages from a different mail server without it's
index file (it was corrupted). I now have thousands of messages which
display in Outlook Express (yes, you may puke at this), all as today's date.
However when I read them in Pine, the date of each message is displayed
correctly, but they're in no particular order whatsoever.
You didn't (or weren't able to) restore the original file date/time stamps?
There are several questions here, some of which aren't suitable for this
list, but for completeness...
- Does Dovecot store what it thinks is the date the message arrived, in it's
index file?
No, because you can delete the index and it gets re-created.
- Can I fake Dovecot into thinking the messages arrived on a different date by
including something in the message headers, or changing the date/time stamp
of each file (but I don't know how to do this)?
The file time stamp is important. You could extract the original send time
stamp from the "Date:" header and use the "touch" command to change the file
time stamp to that value...
Success, Willem Riede.