[Dovecot] pop3 uidl when migrating from mbox to maildir
Thank you for the reply of my previous post (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-March/020716.html) now it works, but I have another question about migrating pop3 account (with leave mail on server) to maildir. On this post -> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-February/011464.html you explain how to create dovecot-uidlist preserving UIDVALIDITY.
Is there someone that have build a script to generate such dovecot-uidlist?
thank you all
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 18:13 +0100, Giuseppe Giacomini wrote:
Thank you for the reply of my previous post (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-March/020716.html) now it works, but I have another question about migrating pop3 account (with leave mail on server) to maildir. On this post -> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-February/011464.html you explain how to create dovecot-uidlist preserving UIDVALIDITY.
Is there someone that have build a script to generate such dovecot-uidlist?
If you want to do that, you can't really use the convert plugin. I originally thought I'd make convert plugin support that, but it got just too complex. You'd anyway get the UIDVALIDITY value from mbox's X-IMAP or X-IMAPbase header, and the UID values from X-UID headers.
I'm not aware of any existing scripts that perserves the UIDs, so either you'd have to do it yourself or just let the POP3 users suffer from the duplicate mails. Now would be a good time to suggest them to switch to IMAP :)
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Giuseppe Giacomini
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Timo Sirainen