Maildir: do message files need to have a unique name across all directories?

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Thu Dec 15 13:54:01 UTC 2016


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On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> While testing a new mail server I created a temporary account and filled 
> its mailbox (Milder, dovecot) with the contents of another account. That 
> means the actual message files in each account have identical names. Is 
> that a problem? (I’m asking because I see some weird behaviour of 
> visible/invisible messages and I wonder if this could have been the 
> reason).

I have no problems using the same filenames in different Maildir 
directories (not in new and cur of the same Maildir).

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Steffen Kaiser
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