Ken Hornstein wrote:
the imap service's relationship to its backing store is none of my
business as an imap client. as long as invariants are preserved, the
precise form of magic, or even what upstream rules might be getting
broken, are "all fine by me".
Well, I didn't care that much about what Cyrus IMAPd was doing, I was
more interested in what Thunderbird was doing (because really, there are
a couple of possibilities). ...
as far as i know thunderbird can't speak Maildir. it's using binmail
format for its local folders. that is, files with From_ separators
between messages.
... If the answer is, "Hey, we just rename those
files into the appropate Maildir "cur" directory and it all works out",
then that's fine; that's easy. I just wanted to be sure we're doing
the right thing.
i think, contrary to what you said above, that what the IMAP server is
doing does matter. however, i meant dovecot, not cyrus -- and i
apologize for the confusion.
And ... well, okay, I decided to read the code, at least in the Cyrus
IMAPd case, and color me confused ... but it sure seems like the
Cyrus mail spool is NOT using Maildir!
on dovecot (not cyrus, sorry!), my Maildir looks like this:
$ ls -d1 .* | perl -ne 'print if /^\.\w+\/$/'
.Archive/
.Drafts/
.Junk/
.Queue/
.Sent/
.ToDo/
.Trash/
.h/
.p/
.t/
.w/
subfolders have more dots in them. so the imap subfolder "zorch" inside
the subfolder "spam" inside the subfolder "w" is:
$ ls -al .w.spam.zorch
total 39
drwxrwxr-x 5 vixie staff 10 Jan 14 21:09 ./
drwxrwxr-x 160 vixie staff 176 Feb 15 04:29 ../
drwxrwxr-x 2 vixie staff 58 Jan 24 2016 cur/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vixie staff 10 Jan 24 2016 dovecot-keywords
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vixie staff 3395 Oct 8 2015 dovecot-uidlist
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vixie staff 1816 Aug 13 2017 dovecot.index
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vixie staff 32300 Dec 16 00:28 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vixie staff 624 Jan 14 21:09 dovecot.index.log
drwxrwxr-x 2 vixie staff 2 May 10 2015 new/
drwxrwxr-x 2 vixie staff 2 Feb 5 23:51 tmp/
so, there are the cur, tmp, and new directories you mentioned earlier.
every "tmp" and "new" subddirectory i have is empty, so i think the
answer to your other question is, files migrate to "cur". i don't know
if the migration happens at refile time or scan time. but it happens.
$ find .w.spam.zorch/cur -type f | head
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239882.M968023P59623.family.redbarn.org:2,a
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239883.M007356P59635.family.redbarn.org:2,a
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239883.M000846P59633.family.redbarn.org:2,a
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239882.M849429P59588.family.redbarn.org:2,a
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239882.M927216P59611.family.redbarn.org:2,a
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239882.M958171P59620.family.redbarn.org:2,a
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239882.M954796P59619.family.redbarn.org:2,a
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239882.M866142P59593.family.redbarn.org:2,a
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239882.M883220P59598.family.redbarn.org:2,a
.w.spam.zorch/cur/1431239882.M987748P59629.family.redbarn.org:2,a
whatever dovecot is doing, it's well behaved compared to other Maildir
cognizant tools.
$ find .w.spam.zorch/cur -type f | xargs cat | grep ^Date: | head
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:45:54 -0700
Date: 20 Aug 2002 19:05:53 -0400
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:37:09 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:19:28 -0700
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:17:50 -0700
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:21:00 -0700
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 21:16:10 -0700
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:20:12 -0700
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:52:45 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:27:01 -0700
i am somewhat alarmed that my contribution to melting the ice caps
supports material this old, but future archeologists will certainly say
of our era that we were packrats.
It's completely possible I am getting this wrong; please, corrections are
welcome.
nope. my fault entirely. dovecot. oops!
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