[Dovecot] qpopper UIDLs and migrating to dovecot/maildir

[Chris Wakelin]

Hmm, interesting idea. I hadn't noticed that qpopper sticks in X-UIDL 
headers (as I never use POP myself).

I might have a go at coding it in Dovecot-1.0-stable and alpha1 (if Timo 
doesn't beat me to it and do it properly :) )

We're migrating from qpopper/uw-imap to Dovecot-1.0-stable, probably on 
the 14th of September and I was resigned to qpopper users getting all 
their left-on-server mail again (I did have a good look at emulating 
qpopper UIDLs, but failed).

grant beattie wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:23:28AM +1000, grant beattie wrote:
> 
> 
>>is anything like this already possible? it doesn't matter what UIDLs
>>new messages get, since they would never have been downloaded by the
>>user via qpopper.
> 
> 
> one possibility is to create the dovecot indexes at mbox -> maildir
> conversion time, preserving the UIDLs from the mbox file.

No need, I think. Dovecot will create indexes as it needs them. I think 
just have an option "preserve_x_uidl" or some such and then use the 
specified format ("%u.%v" etc.) for new UIDLs.

> 
> perhaps someone has done this before?
> 
> grant.
> 

Best Wishes,
Chris

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