On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Alan Knowles wrote:
>I suspect it's the multi-connection way that MS clients work. and not
>all threads in binc being notified of the change of state.

>From what I've heard, it's the good old outlook bug. Binc disconnects on
timeout after 30 minutes, outlook doesn't expect that, and so when you
mark a message as read, it only happens locally and not on the server.
Better yet, outlook doesn't tell Binc after the connection has been opened
again.

This is brokenness in outlook, but if you use another client, or increase
the idle timeout in bincimap.conf, the problem should go away. I also
think the latest outlooks don't have this problem.

Andy :-)

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