[Dovecot] Virtual inbox folder bug

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Nov 3 12:40:16 EET 2010


On 2.11.2010, at 21.50, Antonio Henrique Oliveira wrote:

> All of my email is delivered in some folder other than the real inbox via sieve scripts.
> My inbox is, therefore, a virtual folder, which only displays the unread emails on all the folders in the account.
> 
> Everything works fine *except* that, when I mark an email as read or when I open an email directly on the inbox, it does not disappear from the inbox (as it should since it is not unread after being open or being marked as read).

The mail removal is delayed until you issue EXPUNGE command (in TB I guess that's called "purge") or reopen the mailbox. Otherwise if the message was immediately removed when marked as read, you wouldn't even have a chance to read it before it got removed.



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