[Dovecot] Sync of read message status between squirrelmail and outlook express
Hi,
We have a Linux email server running CentOS 4.4.
I have a scenario here.
The users here use a mixture of outlook express and squirrel mail as their email client. The users download their mail into outlook express via pop3 but the have configured outlook express to leave a copy on the server for 7 days.
- After downloading the mail into outlook express the users would read the mail and the mail would be set as 'READ' in outlook express.
- Is there a way to configure dovecot so that the 'READ' status in outlook express is reflected on the message still stored on the server as well. Cause when they access via squirrel mail the message is still mark as 'UNREAD'.
Any suggestions is very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
For the users that want to leave their messages on the server (and your happy to obide), have them use IMAP instead of POP3.
Regards
Dean Manners
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Mohd Ikhwan Abdullah Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:53 PM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Sync of read message status between squirrelmail andoutlook express
Hi,
We have a Linux email server running CentOS 4.4.
I have a scenario here.
The users here use a mixture of outlook express and squirrel mail as their email client. The users download their mail into outlook express via pop3 but the have configured outlook express to leave a copy on the server for 7 days.
- After downloading the mail into outlook express the users would read the mail and the mail would be set as 'READ' in outlook express.
- Is there a way to configure dovecot so that the 'READ' status in outlook express is reflected on the message still stored on the server as well. Cause when they access via squirrel mail the message is still mark as 'UNREAD'.
Any suggestions is very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
thanks for the suggestion and it works. But out of curiosity does this work using POP3.
On 3/27/07, Dean Manners deanm@ispone.com.au wrote:
For the users that want to leave their messages on the server (and your happy to obide), have them use IMAP instead of POP3.
Regards
Dean Manners
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Mohd Ikhwan Abdullah Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:53 PM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Sync of read message status between squirrelmail andoutlook express
Hi,
We have a Linux email server running CentOS 4.4.
I have a scenario here.
The users here use a mixture of outlook express and squirrel mail as their email client. The users download their mail into outlook express via pop3 but the have configured outlook express to leave a copy on the server for 7 days.
- After downloading the mail into outlook express the users would read the mail and the mail would be set as 'READ' in outlook express.
- Is there a way to configure dovecot so that the 'READ' status in outlook express is reflected on the message still stored on the server as well. Cause when they access via squirrel mail the message is still mark as 'UNREAD'.
Any suggestions is very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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@scconsult.com
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