V1 Dovecot POP3 index migrate to V3

Umut Arus umuta at sabanciuniv.edu
Wed Apr 26 11:31:10 EEST 2017


Thank you Christian. "pop3_save_uidl = yes" setting resolved the problem.

Regards.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Christian Balzer <chibi at gol.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:48:01 +0300 Umut Arus wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've very old Dovecot version so I'm trying to migrate new disk and
> current
> > version of dovecot. But POP3 accounts have "version 1"
> > .INBOX/dovecot-uidlist files so clients download the messages again.
> >
> > How can achieve not to download to mailbox after copy to new disk? Is
> there
> > any script or something to migrate index v1 to v3?
> >
> > thanks for your suggestions.
> >
> Have you actually looked at the configuration file in question
> (20-pop3.conf)?
> Setting "pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u" should do the trick and if you're using
> maildir (we do) you can in addition set "pop3_save_uidl = yes" and in the
> future change to different UID format.
>
>
> Christian
> --
> Christian Balzer        Network/Systems Engineer
> chibi at gol.com           Global OnLine Japan/Rakuten Communications
> http://www.gol.com/
>



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*Umut Arus*
System Specialist
Information Technology
Sabancı University


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