[Dovecot] Sync of read message status between squirrelmail andoutlook express

[Bill Cole]

At 6:41 PM +0800 3/27/07, Mohd Ikhwan Abdullah wrote:
>thanks for the suggestion and it works. But out of curiosity does this work
>using POP3.

No. POP3 is not designed for leaving mail on the server and tracking 
message status there. Some POP3 servers will track message status by 
marking anything that has been downloaded as being read, but that's 
not really accurate.

There's no way in principle for a POP3 client to tell a POP3 server 
to do anything with a message other than send it in whole or part or 
to delete it. Anything else a POP3 server does to a message (like 
adding and using a Status header or using the Maildir status flags) 
has to be implemented as a side-effect of message retrieval, and 
that's not really correct.

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Bill Cole                                  
bill at scconsult.com