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> Dovecot doesn't look at the new files' mtimes or ctimes, because that > would require stat()ing the file, which slows it down. So it's using > the timestamp in the Maildir filename itself. Thanks Timo for the clarification. Whats Dovecot's strategy when the file-name does not contain a time-stamp and its just a sequential long number such as 1494829006737776656. My

...y when the file-name does not contain a time-stamp and its just a sequential long number such as 1494829006737776656. If it's less than 64 bits number and Dovecot is compiled as 64bit binary, I guess it should work. Otherwise it gets more or less random: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/file/17aac21b303d/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-filename.c#l117 > My problem is that I am manually copying a lot of mail into the "new" directory of a Maildir. The file names range from: 1280369043768241070 - 1514890738113019895 but Dovecot is always assigning first UID to the mail in the file...