[Dovecot] Strange behavior

Andrew Boothman andrew at mux.org.uk
Wed Sep 1 02:28:30 EEST 2004


Timo Sirainen wrote:

>> It seems, that dovecot doesn't mark the messages as read after fetching
>> them. There are no strange entries in the logs, nothing which seems to be
>> mysterious. Can anyone help me? This problem teases me.
> 
> Right, it doesn't. Maybe it should. This would be needed anyway if I 
> wanted to support LAST command which some clients still want.

That's interesting - I'd assumed that it did. Perhaps only becuase I've 
seen that behaviour in other servers. I think would make sense to mark 
mails downloaded via POP3 as read - it seems to be the best way to make 
accessing emails through both POP3 and IMAP work together.

Andrew


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