Mail moved from .mac inbox to .mac server not updating on both machines

this is a weird one. i have a .mac account which i use for my email and i run apple's mail app. on both my imac and my ibook. it used to be that if i read some new mail in my .mac inbox and then either deleted it or dragged it to one of my folders on the .mac server, when i went to my other machine, mail would recognize that i've done this and everything would look exactly as it did on the original machine - messages either deleted or moved. not so anymore. now i go to the other machine and the messages that i've either read or moved still appear as unread. when i ask this machine to go and look for new mail, it finds things so it's not as if it's not talking to the .mac server at all. don't even ask me what happens if i start moving those same files around on the second machine. i have no idea how it can think both exist. it's like quantum physics or something. it's this but it's that. very strange.

What I did with moderate success:
-- A backup from the SL server installation I had + another separate backup of /var/spool/imap/dovecot directory.
-- Some other backups, for example Server Admin prefs, OD, Shared Files, etc.
-- Since the server was a mess, formatted the disk and installed Lion Server from scratch.
-- In my case, there was a mess with users and the way Mail was handled with virtual aliases, etc. I read about how the dovecot directory worked from the link provided before and decided to follow a similar approach, with some issues
-------- Created the new users in Lion Server and used the Server app to get into the Directory app and find the new user's GUIDs (about 30 users so it took a while but weren't too many).
-------- Looked up the old GUID for each user and pulled the corresponding mail directory from /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail changing the directory name with the new name and
-------- IMPORTANT: also changing the owner as suggested on the link (i.e., _dovecot=read/write, everyone=none). These permission modifications need to be applied recursively, which is easier using terminal.
-- The issue with this method is that it seems to, sometimes(?), update the file modification dates, which in turn may cause Mail.app on OS X and on iOS Mail to show incorrect dates for each e-mail on the mail list.
-------- I'm still reading about how to correct this issue I found with a particularly huge Inbox (50K+ mails, around 50GB, yikes).
-------- In my case the rest of the config was pretty simple, I used the Server app the setup DNS and Server Admin + modified postfix config file to suit some other requirements.
I hope I'm staying on topic on this thread and that my experience can be of help, in case others run into the same issues.
Message was edited by: ajisolpa for some reason post formatting does not show up.

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