What's the message's UID in the message storage of cyrus imapd.

Vincent Fox vbfox at ucdavis.edu
Mon Aug 17 11:10:33 EDT 2009


The UID is defined in RFC for IMAP as needing to be a unique number for 
that mailbox.
That is all it is.  You can dump message files into an account and as 
long as they are
"#." and you index them they will be visible to IMAP clients.

The UIDL is related/derived number returned by POP.

We actually had to patch our Cyrus install so it would return same UIDL 
results
for POP as the old UW server, so transition from UW to Cyrus would be 
smooth.




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