On 29.10.2012, at 23.09, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 22:40 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
I wondered, when using maildir, are there any headers that dovecote would treat specially, too? And which I therefore should strip?
No. Maildir metadata is stored elsewhere.
Great... and I expect that this ("no headers from the maildir files are interpreted") applies also, when one "imports" mails the first time.
With import I don't mean via IMAP, but plainly moving e.g. a maildir++ tree under dovecots mail location.
Yeah.
Then dovecot usually starts to generate all it's metadata,... and I expect that things like status and keywords are left simply unset... and things like UID and UIDVALIDITY are freshly initialised and not tried to be converted from the maildir files, right?
Flags are stored in the maildir filenames, so they're always preserved. Keywords, UIDs, UIDVALIDITY etc is preserved if you copy the dovecot-* files with it (which is a good idea to do).