This seems to be important to my problem. But I have no idea what it means by 'migrating the message uid'. Could soneone give me a hint and how to do that? I am using mbox format both in uw-imap and the current dovecot.
Cheers Joshua Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, August 11 at 02:26 AM, quoth Joshua, C.S. Chen: >> I just replaced my mail server's UW-imap with dovecot yesterday. > >> For outlook express users, when they come in the office, the first >> time they launch outlook express, they found that the previous Inbox >> is re-transmitted. > > You need to migrate all the message UID's. Without them, dovecot > generates new ones, which makes the client think that all the messages > are new. > >> (so some users got 3X or even 4X the past e-mails). > > I can't imagine why that would be... > > ~Kyle