[Dovecot] FOLDER INTERNAL DATA (uw pine header)

[Charles Gregory]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> I run Dovecot on CentOS 4 (dovecot-1.1.4-0_81.el4), and I *also* run the
>> "Alpine" mail system...
> Dovecot writes the pseudo message when the mailbox is emptied (all
> messages are expunged).

Hmmmm. It looks like *some* of my users are having their *old* 
pseudo-message left in place even after they have read and expunged.
If this is a concern to you, I will do some tests to verify....

But even if it works as described above, it would not be a consistent 
timestamp of when someone last read their mailbox. It looks like dovecot
updates the ~/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log with each read, even 
via pop3, so I should be okay using that.... I can then just use a snip 
of code to check whether that file or the pseudo-message from Alpine is 
'newer'.....

> Maybe the difference is that Alpine writes the pseudo message also when 
> creating the mailbox (or when selecting the created empty mailbox).

Alpine actually updates the message with each read. In particular, it 
updates the "X-IMAP:" line.....

> I guess Dovecot could do that too then.. but I don't really want to 
> waste time on writing that code.

Not a problem. I think that timestamp will do the trick.

Thanks!

- Charles