dovecot - May 2007 - Email client dowloads previously read messages as new during migration.

I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox.  I have been able to find
mbox to maildir migration information and tools; however, I have had little
luck finding any tool or information for performing such a migration where I
wish to keep mbox.  ( I know I should migrate to MailDir, but in the case I
wish to take baby steps.)

I have setup dovecot pop3 communication and I go to my email client and
everything works fine with the exception that all mail I have previously
read (when using UW as my POP server) is downloaded again as NEW.  Is there
a way to prevent this from happening without setting my client to delete
mail from server?

thank you!

Eric and Barbara Sammons spake the following on 5/9/2007 11:06
AM:
> I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox.  I have been able to find
Did you look at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/UW  ?

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Quoting Eric and Barbara Sammons <sammon96 at gmail.com>:
> I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox.
I did the same.  I'm sure you'll be pleased by the results.  I assume
you are using 1.0 and not 0.99 versions?
> I have been able to find
> mbox to maildir migration information and tools; however, I have had little
> luck finding any tool or information for performing such a migration where
I
> wish to keep mbox.  ( I know I should migrate to MailDir, but in the case I
> wish to take baby steps.)
There is nothing wrong with staying with mbox.  There may be reasons it
is best or better to do so (then again, there could be reasons to go
to maildir instead -- it all depends on your needs and setup).

There are few pages about the migration because there is so little to
do for it.
> I have setup dovecot pop3 communication and I go to my email client and
> everything works fine with the exception that all mail I have previously
> read (when using UW as my POP server) is downloaded again as NEW.  Is there
> a way to prevent this from happening without setting my client to delete
> mail from server?
Did you set up your UID format properly in dovecot.conf?  It should be:

pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu

Other than that, it should pretty much work from my experience...
> thank you!
Not sure I helped any, but you're welcome in any case.

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