Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 11:53 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: >> hi, >> we migrate from exchange to dovecot. we do it with imapsync. first we >> try to do it with --syncinternaldates, but this fails on many messages >> with invalid date, so we drop this option. unfortunately after this >> those users who use outlook see the received date as the date we do the >> migration in stead of the real received date. other clients eg webmail, >> thunderbird etc sees the right date. so my question what can i do? it's >> a dovecot bug or outlook and if outlook's bug is there any workaround >> fro this? > > The clients use either Date: header or IMAP INTERNALDATE. In some > clients it's configurable which one to use. I prefer INTERNALDATE > myself. > > So the only solution would be to sync the internaldates as well. What do > you mean messages have invalid dates? As long as imapsync uses a > properly formatted date for APPEND, it shouldn't fail. Although I did > some fixes related to this in v1.0.1. > > If exchange returns INTERNALDATEs with invalid format, imapsync could > figure this out itself and just not use it then.
probably that's the problem. what internaldate in dovecot, the file's modify date in the maildir? i'd be nice if i can somehow set internaldate to the date field with dovecot (actually i already wrote a shell script but it's not the beast solution). -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
