<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Phil,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are you trying to find out how dovecot marks emails as unread?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Assuming you are using maildir format, it appears to be encoded as flags in the email filename on disk. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s briefly covered in 'Filename examples'</div><div class=""><a href="https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir" class="">https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And in 'What can I put in info?'</div><div class=""><a href="https://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html" class="">https://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 17, 2020, at 7:12 PM, Philip Rhoades <<a href="mailto:phil@pricom.com.au" class="">phil@pricom.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Benny,<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 2020-12-18 09:28, Benny Pedersen wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Philip Rhoades skrev den 2020-12-17 22:14:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Every few years I try to work this problem out<br class=""></blockquote>User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.4-rc1<br class="">please upgrade first<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">It is a long-standing problem and upgrading RCM is not a solution . .<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">- occasionally I would<br class="">like to re-mark a dir as having new mail so that the dir shows up as<br class="">blue-coloured in RCM.<br class=""></blockquote>please dont modify mails outside of imap protocol,<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">Then how do I do what I want with IMAP?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">if you use<br class="">roundcube it will not be needed to mangle shell accounts<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">That comment doesn't make sense . .<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Every time I Google in vain and then have a go<br class="">at working it out myself<br class=""></blockquote>if google have no answer to it, its simple not supported<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">Quite frequently not true . .<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">but the only thing I can see is that there is<br class="">a change in the appropriate dir dovecot.index.log file after having<br class="">the blue dir clicked on<br class=""></blockquote>dont mangle files outside of imap protocol<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">You already said that - what is your solution then?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">(and the colour of the dir name changes back<br class="">to black) - so is the information stored somewhere in RCM itself?<br class=""></blockquote>no<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">OK, overall not a very helpful response . . but thanks anyway.<br class=""><br class="">P.<br class="">-- <br class="">Philip Rhoades<br class=""><br class="">PO Box 896<br class="">Cowra NSW 2794<br class="">Australia<br class=""><a href="mailto:phil@pricom.com.au" class="">E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>