How does one mark all messages as read (imap4flag "seen") with sieve?

[Larry Rosenman]

could your script be modified to use LMTP?

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Ben Johnson <ben at indietorrent.org> wrote:

> On 11/3/2016 10:07 PM, Ben Johnson wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I had hoped that marking all messages that arrive to a specific mailbox
> > as read/seen would be as simple as applying the following sieve script
> > to all incoming mail for that mailbox user:
> >
> > ########################
> > require ["imap4flags"];
> > addflag "\\Seen";
> > ########################
> >
> > With this script in-place, mail does not appear to be marked as
> > read/seen. It arrives as it normally would, and my email client sees it
> > as new mail.
> >
> > Is something more required? Or is it a bug/limitation in my email client?
> >
> > I've found many examples of "addflag "\\Seen";" on the web, but all of
> > them are wrapped in conditional logic of some variety. This is a
> > spam-training mailbox and I simply want everything marked as seen/read
> > upon arrival so I'm not bothered/notified every time.
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers here!
> >
> > -Ben
> >
>
> I had the afterthought that perhaps the problem is that my Antispam
> plugin pipe-script simply writes the original message to the filesystem.
> It doesn't use dovecot-lda, so the Sieve filters are not being applied.
>
> I would use dovecot-lda if it didn't sefault with my pipe script. :(
>
> Will just have to live with making messages read manually, I suppose!
>
> -Ben
>



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