Preserving seen state when converting from mbox

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:42:42PM -0400, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > Note that Cyrus probably uses different format UIDs than qpopper does,
> > which is a problem that can likely only be solved by modifying cyrus.
>
> I don't quite understand what you mean here.  Could you explain,or
> givepointer to ressource that explain ?  Are you talking about the X-UID
> header ?

Read section 7 of:

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc1939.html

The part that would concern me is:

 "The unique-id of a message is an arbitrary server-determined string"

Cyrus uses "IMAPUIDVALIDITY.IMAPUID" for this string which is very likely
to not be what the qpopper implementation uses (IMAPUIDVALIDITY and
IMAPUID come from what is used in the IMAP protocol).

-Rob

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