[Dovecot] W= fixup feature

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Dec 12 02:01:07 EET 2008


On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 21:16 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When there are maildir mail files without W= tag in name then dovecot opens 
> them, read data inside to calculate W= size, cache that information etc.
> 
> Would be it sensible to have option where dovecot would fix names of such 
> files? 
> 
> Like if no W= then after calculating size rename file to actually contain W= ?

The W= is in the file's "base name". The base name can't be changed
without causing the file to be thought of as a new message, and you
don't want that. So no, the W= can't really be added to existing files.

But for such files, Wsize is added to dovecot-uidlist with v1.1+.
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