Hello,

I've decided to switch from UW-IMAP to Dovecot and so installed 1.0.rc15-2 on a Debian/Etch system and started using it with the existing MBOX folders. My configuration is pretty much the default one, in particular I didn't touch to any of mbox_xxx options.

The (hoped for) performance improvements were indeed quite noticeable and mostly it works just fine but I seem to have one strange problem with the recent messages: Dovecot seems to reset the RECENT flag on the message right *before* the mailbox is opened. So even if a message was just copied to a folder (e.g. by email client filtering), it doesn't have RECENT flag when the mailbox is opened. Here is an example of what I see:

% telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.

• OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 1 login user password 1 OK Logged in. 2 status test (messages recent unseen)
• STATUS "test" (MESSAGES 41 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 0) 2 OK Status completed. [--- switch to another window and copy a message to the test folder ---] 3 status test (messages recent unseen)
• STATUS "test" (MESSAGES 42 RECENT 1 UNSEEN 0) 3 OK Status completed. 4 select test
• FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
• OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted.
• 42 EXISTS
• 0 RECENT
• OK [UIDVALIDITY 1048987099] UIDs valid
• OK [UIDNEXT 407] Predicted next UID 4 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 5 status test (messages recent unseen)
• STATUS "test" (MESSAGES 42 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 0) 5 OK Status completed. 6 fetch 42 flags
• 42 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen)) 7 logout
• BYE Logging out 7 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host.

Why does Dovecot send "0 RECENT" when the mailbox is opened when it had just told that there was a recent message in it? And why is the message effectively old (no \Recent in the FETCH reply)? Notice that if I look at the MBOX file I see "Status: R" until command number 7, it becomes "Status: RO" only when I log out -- but internally Dovecot clearly considers it to be old long before that.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is this the expected behaviour and, in this case, is there any way to change it to the more expected one (UW-IMAP-like)?

Thanks in advance, VZ