[horde] Horde messes up Dovecot index (or index log)?

[Jussi Hirvi]

> Am 02.05.2011 22:59, schrieb Jussi Hirvi:
>> >  Any issues with using Horde with Sendmail, and Dovecot?
>> >
>> >  By googling, I found something about Maildir format. I could not verify if Horde
>> >  still uses Maildir format instead  of mbox, but at least in my setup it seems
>> >  to use mboxes quite happily

On 3.5.2011 0.13, Reindl Harald wrote:
> where does horde touch maildir/mbox?
>
> horde/imp is a webmail.client using IMAP and do not / has nothing
> to know about any layer behind the imap-protocol of your existing
> mailserver

Here are the differences in one mail folder (actually a file) "before 
and after Horde" - more exactly, after the folder has been read by horde:

[root at mail mail]# pwd
/home/lasso/greenspot/jussi/mail
[root at mail mail]# diff saved-drafts saved-drafts.backup
13,14d12
< X-IMAPbase: 1304362416 0000000002
< X-UID: 1
37d34
< X-UID: 2

That is a couple of new headers, not so bad? That folder only contains 
two messages.

The size difference in what dovecot expects and what it sees 
(10464/2748) seems to be too big to be caused by some new header lines. 
It can be caused because the inbox in question may be different in age 
from the /home directory contents - because I am copying things over 
from an old to the new mailserver.

In this case it is not a horde issue.

Also it seems that dovecot recovers gracefully and creates another 
"index log":
-rw------- 1 myname mygroup   748 May  2 21:51 dovecot.index.log
-rw------- 1 myname mygroup  2748 May  2 21:08 dovecot.index.log.2

- Jussi