Hello,

I've been working to migrate to dovecot (debian stable: 1:1.2.15-7) from courier (debian old-stable: 4.4.0-2). I've setup everything and migrated a test user over to the new system, and ran the courier-dovecot-migrate.pl script.

The user is using alpine (the free version of pine) and their sort order changed on move to dovecot. Originally it was the default in alpine, which is to sort based on arrival. If he changes the sort order in alpine to sort based on date, then things are back to how he expects it. I noticed that there are no known issues with pine (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients#Pine).

Ideally, I would prefer if all the users who are migrated aren't presented with a different sort order than they were used to, as the support burden will be quite high.

What is it about this migration that could have caused that, and more importantly, how can I fix it?

I moved the mail from the original system to this system via rsync -a. The old system was an i686 machine and ext3, this new one is amd64 and ext4.

thanks for any ideas! micah

# dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.2 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: howdy, ready. login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 256 first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 8 last_valid_gid: 8 mail_uid: 8 mail_gid: 8 mail_location: maildir:~/ maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes maildir_very_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /maildir/postlogin_imap mail_executable(imap): /maildir/postlogin_imap mail_executable(pop3): /maildir/postlogin_pop mail_process_size: 512 mail_plugins(default): expire quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): expire quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): expire quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@riseup.net auth default: default_realm: riseup.net verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch dict: expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf

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