Using dovecot with RoundCubeMail - where is the information for new mail in (blue coloured) directories?

[Philip Rhoades]

David,


On 2020-12-19 00:08, David Morsberger wrote:
> Phil,
> 
> Are you trying to find out how dovecot marks emails as unread?


No - I am trying to work out how New Unread Mails are highlighted in 
blue - see the attached partial screen capture - the two 
blue-highlighted RCM folders are highlighted in blue AND are also in 
bold - folders with OLD but UNREAD mails are just in bold.

I want to create a script or find out some way of marking a folder blue 
according to the datestamp of the most recent mail in the folder.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,

Phil.


> Assuming you are using maildir format, it appears to be encoded as
> flags in the email filename on disk.
> 
> It’s briefly covered in 'Filename examples'
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir
> 
> And in 'What can I put in info?'
> https://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
> 
>> On Dec 17, 2020, at 7:12 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Benny,
>> 
>> On 2020-12-18 09:28, Benny Pedersen wrote:
>> Philip Rhoades skrev den 2020-12-17 22:14:
>> Every few years I try to work this problem out
>> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.4-rc1
>> please upgrade first
> 
> It is a long-standing problem and upgrading RCM is not a solution . .
> 
>>> - occasionally I would
>>> like to re-mark a dir as having new mail so that the dir shows up
>>> as
>>> blue-coloured in RCM.
>> please dont modify mails outside of imap protocol,
> 
> Then how do I do what I want with IMAP?
> 
>> if you use
>> roundcube it will not be needed to mangle shell accounts
> 
> That comment doesn't make sense . .
> 
>>> Every time I Google in vain and then have a go
>>> at working it out myself
>> if google have no answer to it, its simple not supported
> 
> Quite frequently not true . .
> 
>>> but the only thing I can see is that there is
>>> a change in the appropriate dir dovecot.index.log file after
>>> having
>>> the blue dir clicked on
>> dont mangle files outside of imap protocol
> 
> You already said that - what is your solution then?
> 
>>> (and the colour of the dir name changes back
>>> to black) - so is the information stored somewhere in RCM itself?
>> no
> 
> OK, overall not a very helpful response . . but thanks anyway.
> 
> P.
> --
> Philip Rhoades
> 
> PO Box 896
> Cowra  NSW  2794
> Australia
> E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au

-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au
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