Re: problem with movemail, uidl and maildir as destination

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Jose,

> if i invoke something like:
> 
>    movemail --uidl --keep-messages imaps://mail.sever 
> maildir:///home/user/mbox
> 
> the answer is always (i've tried various combinations, and also mboxes):
> 
>   movemail: mailbox `maildir:///home/jao/mbox': cannot get UIDLs: Requested 
> item not found

UIDL is a feature specific for the POP3 protocol.  It is not implemented
by IMAP servers, hence the error.  IMAP has a notion of message UID,
which can be used for this purpose.  Unfortunately, I haven't had enough
time to implement it.  I'll do so as soon as my load permits.  Thanks
for reminding me.

Regards,
Sergey