[Dovecot] Mixed Courier POP3 and Dovecot IMAP environment

[Jan van den Berg]

In the past we also patched Courier; so Im not sure about the naming
what's right and what's not (I know for a fact what we use now:
courierimapuiddb) 

But you get the idea, right :) 

We currently don't support (Courier) keywords; so if we decide to
support/offer this we can start afresh with Dovecot.


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
Verzonden: zondag 30 september 2007 14:08
Aan: Jan van den Berg
CC: dovecot at dovecot.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Mixed Courier POP3 and Dovecot IMAP environment

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:29 +0200, Jan van den Berg wrote:
> -          "Patch" the source so Dovecot IMAP will look for/use
> 'courierimapuiddb' instead of 'dovecot-uidlist': otherwise I guess
POP3
> and IMAP users will have different UID files, right? Is this smart or
> will this still break the UID file?

Courier POP3 uses courierpop3uiddb (or something) file for POP3 UIDLs.
Unless you're using a really old Courier version.

> I'm thinking about patching so the transition can be as transparent as
> possible: Also if anything might go wrong in production I want to be
> able to switch back to the 'old' Courier IMAP (without renaming files
> etc.)

I guess then you want to rename dovecot-uidlist. Courier's keyword
implementation is also different from Dovecot.