[Dovecot] new flags in Maildir files

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jan 9 16:55:52 EET 2009


On Jan 8, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:

> I migrated my third system from courier to dovecot. My previous two  
> were MacOSX the third is FreeBSD 6.
> I noticed (because of an rsync process taking longer than usual...)  
> that on FreeBSD the message files have, most of them at least,  
> gained extra suffix letters (in the range a-h I'd say) that I do not  
> see (mostly if not at all) on my MacOS systems.

a-z letters are for IMAP keywords (aka labels aka custom flags). Not  
all clients use them at all, which is why you may not see them for all  
users.



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