[tpop3d-discuss] Mail 'read' status

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:18:06AM -0800, James Gurney wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem. I've read the FAQ, tried searching 
> the ml archives, to no avail.
> 
> I have a user who reads mail during the day using pine, and then 
> collects mail in the evening with Outlook express, but has OE configured 
> to leave up to 7 days of mail on the server. The problem is, mail that 
> was previously marked as read (by pine) is no longer marked as read next 
> time pine is opened (after downloading through tpop3d). It's almost as 
> though the mail file is being re-written after download, but without the 
> read status being set. This has only been a problem since we started 
> using tpop3d on the server. Previously we used the uw pop3d and it 
> worked fine.
> 
> Any suggestions or ideas on how to work around this?

tpop3d doesn't alter the status headers of mail. It does,
however, allow the modification time of the mailbox to be
updated. If I remember rightly, wu-imapd makes some
complicated attempt to restore the modification time on
the mailbox to its value at the beginning of the session,
which is completely broken. It is possible that this is
responsible for the difference in behaviour.

Which ailbxo format are you using?

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