On 29.10.2012, at 23.09, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 22:40 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> I wondered, when using maildir, are there any headers that dovecote >>> would treat specially, too? >>> And which I therefore should strip? >> >> No. Maildir metadata is stored elsewhere. > > Great... and I expect that this ("no headers from the maildir files are > interpreted") applies also, when one "imports" mails the first time. > > With import I don't mean via IMAP, but plainly moving e.g. a maildir++ > tree under dovecots mail location.
Yeah. > Then dovecot usually starts to generate all it's metadata,... and I > expect that things like status and keywords are left simply unset... and > things like UID and UIDVALIDITY are freshly initialised and not tried to > be converted from the maildir files, right? Flags are stored in the maildir filenames, so they're always preserved. Keywords, UIDs, UIDVALIDITY etc is preserved if you copy the dovecot-* files with it (which is a good idea to do).