[Dovecot] changing INTERNALDATE or similar

Mateusz Kijowski mateusz.kijowski at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 19:19:22 EEST 2008


>
> Why does it matter where the timestamp lives? No matter how it was
> stored, you would have had the exact same problem because your client
> told Dovecot to use the current timestamp when saving the messages.
>
> And why would keeping the INTERNALDATE in mtime be bad? It only
> changes if you write to the file. And existing mails must not be
> modified or you'll get other problems as well.

I guess that with the zlib plugin this date is extracted from the gzip 
metadata, right? I didn't preserve mtimes of gzipped mails...

--
Mateusz

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