On 18 Mar 2016, at 9:59, Frank Schots wrote:

Hi

It is the Read flag, messages aren't read yet.

One might think that at first glance since most red-dot messages in the screenshot are listed in bold text, but look at the 1st message in that list: blue dot.

Also: mid-list, 3 messages, non-bold text (meaning they've been read) but they have a red dot...



Op Friday 18 March 2016, om 9:05, Vlad Ghitulescu schreef:

Hello!


What do the red dots left to the messages mean

It means that you use another client in addition to MailMate with that source account and that the other client handles message deletion in a classical IMAP mode. This means that messages get marked with the "\Deleted" flag when the user deletes them, but do not REALLY get deleted until the mailbox or (if the server & client support the UIDPLUS extension) the individual message is purged. Some servers auto-purge mailboxes or individual \Deleted messages based on various criteria and some clients do as well, although some client+server combinations will never purge anything unless the user explicitly commands it.

So: a red dot in the "Read" column means that something other than MailMate marked the message for deletion but has not yet told the server to purge it.

The mechanics of handling message deletion and presentation of recoverable "deleted" messages vary broadly between IMAP clients. MailMate uses a very conservative approach of not purging messages it did not flag \Deleted, although I don't know how it manages that on servers without UIDPLUS support (which was a requirement for early versions of MailMate.)
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