Transferring accounts / email marked as unread

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teedee

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Hi,

When transferring accounts to another server using the DA backup feature all mails in the account are marked as unread. Anyone know how to transfer the mails actual status (read / unread ) to avoid clients downloading loads of mails that they already have after the transfer is complete ?
 
Did you or your clients change the incoming email servername in mail clients (Outlook, OE, etc.)?

Jeff
 
With the default mail system (mbox), all emails are stored in 1 file. The way that each program sets a particular email as "read" varies per program.. for example, Outlook checks the email headers from emails from a particular server/IP so it doesn't download them twice. vm-pop3d adds flags in the email headers actually modifying the emails.. and imapd adds anothger email at the start of the inbox with folder settings..

For Outlook, as Jeff mentioned, if the server the client connects to is different, then outlook will figure this is a different server, so all emails downloaded from it will be new.. which is likely why he's getting them all over again.

Using dovecot (Maildir), this isn't a problem because each email has it's own file, and the naming of the file (extensions etc) determines if the file has been read, so there is no mistaking it.
Dovecot will be our new default mail program with new DA installs in the next few months.

John
 
Thanks, John. I knew about the servername but not about the IP#. I guess because I don't use an MS solution :) .
and imapd adds another email at the start of the inbox with folder settings.
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That's the email everyone always asks about when they switch from imap to pop and it gets downloaded by pop.

Of course by the time it gets downloaded it's already too late as it's been deleted from the server.

Jeff
 
ok, But the mails are marked as unread for clients using /webmail as well ......
 
/webmail might also have another internal flagging system that is stored in /var/www/html/webmail/tmp .. which is seperate from the inboxes... (that data should have been transferring) but possibly not.. hard to say.

John
 
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