On 2007-06-05, 21:29, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Is there any way I can sort the list accourding to the unix > > timestamps, and still make it transparent to the pop3/imap clients? > > > > I would prefer a solution that does not involve users downloading > > allready downloaded messages via pop3. > > There's no easy way. The UID numbers were apparently converted from > courierpop3dsizelist file. So either the UID numbers need to be lost, or > the list isn't sorted. Dovecot doesn't yet support having separate UIDs > for POP3 and IMAP.
I have been debugging this a bit further, and I believe I have been able to reproduce how the problem started. 1) We run the migrate script on a (courier) account containing messages. 2) The script fails, and produces a dovecot-uidlist -file containing only "1 -1 0" (you made a patch when the problem was reported: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-May/008728.html) 3) We delete the erroneous dovecot-uidlist -files, and so we are left with an account without a dovecot-uidlist file, but it still contains messages in cur 4) Messages come in, and deliver creates a dovecot-uidlist with uids "1,2 ... N" 5) The user runs imap/pop3, and dovecot notices that there are messages in cur, and adds them to the uidlist, after uids "1,2,3 ... N" .. so, we end up with an unordered list. Suggestion: make deliver create the index files, and a complete dovecot-uidlist when a message is sent to an account without index files. -- Erland Nylend
