[Dovecot] making Dovecot match Courier POP3 UID's

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 20:01 -0400, Jeff Tucker wrote:
> Hi, guys.
> 
> I've read the information in the Wiki about making dovecot's UID's match
> Courier's UID's in the POP3 server, so that a UIDL command on either
> server will return the same UID's for the same group of messages.
> However, what I've read doesn't match what I'm seeing in Courier.
> 
> Courier appears to keep the UID numbers for messages that it uses for
> the POP3 server separate from the UID numbers for the IMAP server.
> Courier has a file: courierpop3dsizelist which has a line for every
> message, like:
> 
> 1129610881.6075832619.blade4:2,S 2361 1478:1065670602
> 1129727025.1168007000.blade1:2,S 14718 1479:1065670602
> 1130005953.3295720403.blade5:2,S 1554 1481:1065670602
> 1130108068.0849623942.blade5:2,S 8246 1482:1065670602

Oh. For some reason I had thought it used the same IMAP uidlist file.
Perhaps earlier versions did?

> So, it seems to me that dovecot can't ever match Courier's UID numbers
> for the POP3 server unless it reads and interprets this
> courierpop3dsizelist file.

Right. You could maybe try building a script which builds
dovecot-uidlist based on those UIDL values. Or alternatively you'll have
to patch Dovecot's code..
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