On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:00 -0400, Jesse C. Smillie wrote:
I have migrated from mbox format to Maildir format in the last week. I used the utility mb2md.pl to convert all of our existing emails from one system to the next. I then modified my /etc/procmailrc file by putting this at the top: MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/
Looks OK.
So now to my problem. We also use Usermin for our users to access their email when they don't have a supported client available to them. When
I've no idea about Usermin.
However, all the email that is delivered after the fact is different. They all look like this: _oTH.XqwlGB.gator:2,RS _p2F.qjVlGB.gator:2,RS
It's not in a standard maildir format. Maybe Procmail has changed it recently? Maybe it's configurable? Maybe you should just get rid of Procmail? :)
For the most part I'm being told that the reason why Usermin's sort is all screwed up (order wise) in IMAP mode is that messages are displayed in the order that the IMAP server reports them.
Like wise in Maildir mode the order which they are read. I can understand why this naming stuff throws everything off at this point.
When Dovecot sees new messages in maildir it sorts the new messages by their filename and assigns UIDs in that order. Existing messages aren't ever reordered however. So if Dovecot sees these kind of new messages one at a time, there's no problem. But if it sees two of them, then those two might be in wrong order.