Dovecot and Apple's Mail.app not playing nicely?

Sami Ketola sami.ketola at dovecot.fi
Tue Sep 3 16:22:31 EEST 2019



> On 3 Sep 2019, at 15.30, Coy Hile via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there anything cute one has to take into account when using Dovecot with users of Apple’s Mail.app? 
> Behavior I’m seeing is that if I delete or move messages via Webmail (Roundcube, Horde, or even ActiveSync
> via Mail.app on my phone), they do get moved or deleted.  However, if I take the same actions in the desktop
> mail client, when logging in to the Webmail (or phone) app, I see the messages still seeming to be in the Inbox.
> 
> Is this known behavior? A peculiarity in Apple Mail? 

I am using Apple Mail.App in Macbook, iPhone and iPad. And in fact quite many of us internally are doing the same
and I can't see that behaviour. Mail.App correctly obeys \Deleted flag and does not show the mails in folders.

Sami


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