On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 11:26 -0500, Tony Rutherford wrote: > >> Here's a question though. If the dovecot-uidlist file is deleted (for > >> whatever reason), it gets rebuilt by Dovecot. But, how does it get > >> rebuilt? It does not appear to generate uids based on the date of > >> messages...I believe that to be true. Is there any flag/option in > >> Dovecot to build the uidlist file based on message date (uids ordered by > >> date)? > >> > > > > The added mails are ordered by their filename. The filename typically > > begins with timestamp of when the message was received, so it's > > practically in the same order as mails were received. > > > > > > > > Yes, unless you're unfortunate enough to be supporting a non-standard legacy > message name format based on uuidgen! I did see the function where it > attempts to compare based on the "standard" filename format...but again, > unfortunately I have to deal with non-standard as well as the standard format > :(
Oh, this was for the above question. I was mixing it up with the other one. Right, yeah, doesn't look like it's all that great then. But you're kind of in the minority. :) And this shouldn't be a real problem typically in any case. Only in the migration case, and the migration script could be fixed for that.
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