----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Candler" B.Candler@pobox.com To: "Oleg I. Vdovikin" oleg@cs.msu.su Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Re: Small change to make dovecot pop3uw-imapmigrationfriendly
Maybe some POP3 servers derive their UIDL from the IMAP UID, but not all do (courier-imap for one; also any standalone POP3 server which does not have an IMAP component) Yes, that's the case. And luckily dovecot and uw-imap use the same approach. ;-) And RedHat guys pushing dovecot instead of uw-imap in Fedora Core 2. Many users will "migrate" this way.
This does not requires any changes for old messages and for the new ones. I'm just want sit fixed at
%08x%08x
format forever and do not want to switch to %u.%u used by dovecot...
The other point is that if you have a global default like this, and one day you decide to change from one format to the other, then all POP3 clients will suddenly believe that all the stored mail is new and will download it again. Yes, but I need at least transparent migration from uw-imap to dovecot. ;-)
Regards,
Brian.
Regards, Oleg.