On Fri, June 3, 2011 15:00, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 21:16 +0200, Tom Sommer wrote: > >> I restored a dovecot mailserver today, and when I started the server >> again, the logs filled up with "Fixed a duplicate" warnings. >> >> This in itself it not a problem, the problem is that it appears the fix >> is not done correct. > > You shouldn't have restored an old maildir on top of an existing > maildir. That is the main problem. The same mails had different flags > (=different filenames), and Dovecot just renamed one of the files to > make sure no mails got accidentally lost. In your case it should have just > deleted the duplicates, but there's no such feature yet. Dovecot works > exactly as intended here. The full explanation is more complex than I want > to type right now.
Would it be possible to set the correct timestamp on the renamed files, so the timestamp remains the same as on the original? // Tom
