Whoa, pardner! Towards the end of your message, you said that you were using the traditional UNIX mailbox format. Shared access is *NOT* supported in the traditional UNIX mailbox format.
In your example, Connection 1 *should* terminate the moment Connection 2 opened the mailbox. There are reasons why this might not happen. I am concerned by your report of "seen" status being revoked that this might be happening. However, I noticed your comment to the effect that you "are running imapd on Windows". Do you really mean that the IMAP server itself is running on Windows, and you are using some sort of front end such as inetlisn? If you really are running imapd on Windows, note that imapd is *NOT* supported on Windows, and usage of traditional UNIX mailbox format (as opposed to mbx format) is *especially* not supported in imapd on Windows. I strongly suggest that you give serious consideration to running imapd on UNIX *and* using the mbx format which supports shared access. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
