[Dovecot] does dovecot interpret any mail headers specially with maildir?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Oct 30 00:08:28 EET 2012


On 29.10.2012, at 23.52, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 23:39 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Right. The only special case is X-UIDL: header, which is used for POP3 UIDLs but only if pop3_reuse_xuidl=yes (which isn't really recommended nowadays as there are other ways to do it).
> 
> Great... I think it would worth adding all this to:
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir

Well, that isn't really maildir-specific. It's pop3 specific that is done with all mailbox formats. pop3_reuse_xuidl setting's comments should probably warn about the possibility of receiving unwanted X-UIDL headers in new mails.

> Is the wiki open for public editing (after registering an account)?

Yes. You don't even need to register.




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