On Fri, June 3, 2011 15:00, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 21:16 +0200, Tom Sommer wrote:
I restored a dovecot mailserver today, and when I started the server again, the logs filled up with "Fixed a duplicate" warnings.
This in itself it not a problem, the problem is that it appears the fix is not done correct.
You shouldn't have restored an old maildir on top of an existing maildir. That is the main problem. The same mails had different flags (=different filenames), and Dovecot just renamed one of the files to make sure no mails got accidentally lost. In your case it should have just deleted the duplicates, but there's no such feature yet. Dovecot works exactly as intended here. The full explanation is more complex than I want to type right now.
Would it be possible to set the correct timestamp on the renamed files, so the timestamp remains the same as on the original?
// Tom