[Dovecot] Fixing Timestamps

[Steffen]

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LuKreme wrote:
> 
> On 02 Oct 2013, at 11:51 , Charles Marcus
> <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2013-10-01 7:42 PM, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>>> I have a user with a lot of email (A LOT of email, probably
>>> over 500,000 emails). Recently, several thousand messages of
>>> his were lost, and I pulled them out of the backup archives
>>> (zip files containing each days emails in an mbox) that are
>>> created on his account and fed them into his procmail scripts
>>> and they were all processed just fine and ended up in the right
>>> directories.
>>> 
>>> Except.
>>> 
>>> The messages were from 6 months back, and the messages now show
>>> up in his mail client with the time stamp of the date they were
>>> restored, and not the date that shows up in the headers of the
>>> message.
>>> 
>>> Anything I can do?
>> 
>> Fix your restore script/methodology, then restore them again?
> 
> That would just move the grep/convert/rename into the restore
> process.
> 
> Maildir saves the file with the epoch timestamp of the time the
> file is saved.

you re-submit the message into the message transfer process, hence the
message is new and not the original "backup"ed message. If you would
backup and restore the file from/to the Maildir without procmail
a.s.o. you would have the original message.

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Steffen
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