[Dovecot] POP retrieval, then reading, of mail does not udpate server status.

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 16:24 +1000, Paul Vatta wrote:
> The problem encountered is the status of emails on the server isn't 
> being updated.  The POP client (Eudora 6.2 in this instance) will 
> retrieve the message, have the message read, apparently update the 
> status on the server (via the "Check Mail" function), but yet the status 
> on the server has not been updated as read (verified by going into our 
> IMP Webmail client, and looking at the mail message in the mailstore - 
> there is no ".S" extension).  Using the IMAP protocol doesn't bring 
> about this behaviour.

POP3 itself doesn't know/care about Seen-flag. Some servers set it when
POP3 client downloads the message, and some don't. Dovecot 0.99.x
doesn't touch the flag. 1.0-stable/test releases update it optionally.

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