UNSEEN flag issues with multiple clients

[Sami Ketola]

> On 2 Oct 2019, at 17.01, John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org <mailto:john at stoffel.org>> wrote:
> To look at all the mailboxes on the server and see how many RECENT
> mails there are.  For the postfix-users list, I see that there are 6
> recent messages.  And if I do the list of mailboxes command again, it
> returns the same count.  Then if I go and look at the postfix-users
> folder with my iphone, I see that I have 11 unseen messages.  And
> without opening a single message, I went back to my other MUA and
> listed the folders, and now I have 0 unseen messages for 'postfix-users'
> 
> I'll have to see if I can log the commands sent by my iPhone from the
> server side to see what's going on here.  But as you can see, it's an
> annoying behavior.


It might be annoying but I know for a fact being a iPhone user myself that iPhone uses SELECT to open a folder and per-RFC dovecot then must update the flags.

Sami

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