Hmm, interesting idea. I hadn't noticed that qpopper sticks in X-UIDL headers (as I never use POP myself).
I might have a go at coding it in Dovecot-1.0-stable and alpha1 (if Timo doesn't beat me to it and do it properly :) )
We're migrating from qpopper/uw-imap to Dovecot-1.0-stable, probably on the 14th of September and I was resigned to qpopper users getting all their left-on-server mail again (I did have a good look at emulating qpopper UIDLs, but failed).
grant beattie wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:23:28AM +1000, grant beattie wrote:
is anything like this already possible? it doesn't matter what UIDLs new messages get, since they would never have been downloaded by the user via qpopper.
one possibility is to create the dovecot indexes at mbox -> maildir conversion time, preserving the UIDLs from the mbox file.
No need, I think. Dovecot will create indexes as it needs them. I think just have an option "preserve_x_uidl" or some such and then use the specified format ("%u.%v" etc.) for new UIDLs.
perhaps someone has done this before?
grant.
Best Wishes, Chris
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