Ray Jackson writes:

   Mail store: timestamp.procid.hostname;size
Webmail store: user%40pop3server%2etimestamp%2eprocid%2ehostname%3bsize

So, anyway I did a test and copied an inbox off our existing mail store and
copied them directly into a Maildir folder called oldmail (under the 'cur'
sub-directory) and hey presto - my IMAP client simply recognised all the email
and Courier created and updated a 'courierimapuiddb' file.  I didn't need to
rename the files or anything.  I then copied the files and added :2,S on the
end of the filenames and my IMAP client saw them all as read!  For the Webmail
store I copied the files again to a folder and then coverted the \r\n to \n and
again it all worked with no file renaming etc.  And Courier happily created a
'courierimapuiddb' file with the orginal file names etc.

So, I guess my question is - Are there any problems or issues we might face with
copying files into a Maildir directory without the standard Maildir filename
format?

No. The only issue will be that the relative order of messages in a folder may change, after the move.


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