[Dovecot] POP server migration and duplicate messages.

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 12:16 -0700, Ernie Dunbar wrote:

> From a
> random sampling, the UIDL of the messages checks out between both servers,

Completely identical UIDL output with the same order of messages? If so,
there's nothing you can do about it from Dovecot's side.

> so I really don't understand what's going on here. If this is just a bug
> in Evolution, then that means I can just go ahead with the full migration
> and hope that people aren't going to be stuck with re-downloading their
> entire mailbox which in some cases, means hundreds or thousands of
> messages.

Some clients redownload mails if you change the hostname. But I don't
know why Evolution would redownload only some of the messages but not
all.