[Dovecot] gmail pop3 fetcher sets my emails as read

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jun 12 00:05:44 EEST 2009


On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 22:33 +0200, Julien Buratto wrote:
> I'm testing gmail to fetch my emails via POP3 and I've noticed that on
> the server where I run dovecot, the emails that gmail take, are marked
> as read when I imap my emails with my thunderbird.
> 
> As I've noticed that this is not true for the email accounts on
> another mail environment, I was wondering if anyone of you could
> sugged where I could change the behaviour.

  # Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. This is
  # mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files
  # from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header.
  #pop3_no_flag_updates = no

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