I have some odd indexing issues with Dovecot and I'm curious if it has
to do with the metadata. It's a longshot but something that is
recommended for mbox format users at:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox
Dovecot's Metadata
Dovecot uses C-Client (ie. UW-IMAP, Pine) compatible headers in mbox
messages to store metadata. These headers are:
* X-IMAPbase: Contains UIDVALIDITY, last used UID and list of used
keywords
* X-IMAP: Same as X-IMAPbase but also specifies that the message is
a "pseudo message"
* X-UID: Message's allocated UID
* Status: R (\Seen) and O (non-\Recent) flags
* X-Status: A (\Answered), F (\Flagged), T (\Draft) and D (\Deleted)
flags
* X-Keywords: Message's keywords
* Content-Length: Length of the message body in bytes
Whenever any of these headers exist, Dovecot treats them as its own
private metadata. It does sanity checks for them, so the headers may
also be modified or removed completely. None of these headers are sent
to IMAP/POP3 clients when they read the mail. Preferably your LDA should
strip all these headers before writing the mail to the mbox.
So I'm wondering if there is any reason these headers shouldn't be
stripped for every email on the system by MD?
regards,
KAM
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