[Dbmail] Migrating mailboxes, which tool to use?

2012-03-13 Thread Leandro
Hello, we are planning the complete migration of email boxes from an old maildir system to dbmail. Unfortunately we discover a lots of problems with some of our users using POP3 protocol and leaving emails on the server. They start downloading again the old messages. It seems the "leave emails on s

Re: [Dbmail] Migrating mailboxes, which tool to use?

2012-03-13 Thread Reindl Harald (mobile)
I fear there is no way for POP3, one reason beside storage educate users use the "delete from server after x days" since it is braindead to leave forever while use POP3 instead IMAP Leandro schrieb: >Hello, >we are planning the complete migration of email boxes from an old >maildir system to

Re: [Dbmail] Migrating mailboxes, which tool to use?

2012-03-13 Thread Paul J Stevens
Leandro, POP3 relies on UIDL values to track messages. When a POP3 client sees unknown UIDL values, it will assume a message hasn't been retrieved yet. In DBMail these are generated during delivery and stored in dbmail_messages.unique_id. Other servers will use different UIDL values, and transpo