Eric Sammons
2009-Aug-26 13:21 UTC
[Dovecot] mbox to maildir migration question and problems, dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5
Hi, I am trying to assist a customer with a mbox to maildir migration. I have them using the latest and greatest mb2md.pl; the one that support -K, -U|-u. They have seen overwhelming success with this; however, a recent mbox introduced a new scenario and the result was that all messages were replayed in the client UI. The mbox in question had _no_ X-UID tags. To work-a-round the issue the customer performed the following steps. [snip] We found that the fix was to clear /var/indexes/$USER for the account and log in and log back out. After doing this X-UID's were populated for each respective message. [/snip] The customer also noted that after the migration all messages went to ~/MailDir/new. I would appreciate any thoughts on why this scenario played out the way it did? Is it expected that these messages should reside in ~/MailDir/new? [config] protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes } [/config] Thank you! -- Eric L. Sammons, RHCE
Timo Sirainen
2009-Sep-07 01:31 UTC
[Dovecot] mbox to maildir migration question and problems, dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 09:21 -0400, Eric Sammons wrote:> Hi, > > I am trying to assist a customer with a mbox to maildir migration. I have > them using the latest and greatest mb2md.pl; the one that support -K, > -U|-u. They have seen overwhelming success with this; however, a recent > mbox introduced a new scenario and the result was that all messages were > replayed in the client UI. > > The mbox in question had _no_ X-UID tags. To work-a-round the issue the > customer performed the following steps.If there were no X-UID headers, it means the mailbox had never been opened.> The customer also noted that after the migration all messages went to > ~/MailDir/new. > > I would appreciate any thoughts on why this scenario played out the way it > did? Is it expected that these messages should reside in ~/MailDir/new?It's just fine for messages to be in new/ directory. It basically means they have \Recent flag set, i.e. client hasn't seen them yet. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090906/cafaaeeb/attachment-0002.bin>