On 13.09.2017 23:59, Steinar Bang wrote: >>>>>> Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi>: >> On 09.09.2017 12:33, Steinar Bang wrote: >>> When a message is copied to a folder on dovecot with mbox storage, is >>> the mtime of the saved mbox file set to the time of the save? > [snip!] >> Internaldate is picked from the separating 'From' line in mbox file. >> "From u...@example.org Thu Oct 20 18:44:06 2016" > Sorry! I mistyped: I meant maildir, not mbox. > > So, to repeat the question: > > When a message is copied to a folder on dovecot with maildir storage, is > the mtime of the saved maildir file set to the time of the save? > > Or is the mtime set to the Date: field of the source message that is > saved? > > If there is a difference in the behaviour, do someone know the dovecot > version number where the change happened? > > The reason I'm asking is a problem reported on the Gnus imap client in > August 2016, where messaged moved by Gnus showed up with the wrong order > and/or wrong date in other imap clients. > > (The reason for the different message ordering was that the other clients > use the INTERNALDATE and that was changed to the time of message move > when Gnus was used. Gnus use the Date of the source message) It's the file ctime.
Aki
