On 15-07-2011 09:44, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: > > Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> That stuff is bogus. This is only somebody's idea of what being compliant >> means. "Expunge fetch" and "Expunge store", for example, are undefined >> behavior. They're not a MUST. And \Recent is broken by design. I know of >> no >> popular IMAP client that uses it. They all use \Seen to mark up new mail. >> > Sligtly out of topic - but just FYI: > > Regarding: \Recent not being used by any IMAP client > > I use Thunderbird (3.1.10) with Dovecot (2.0.12) > Both seem at put some sort of meaning into \Recent. > Thunderbird shows new messages in bold - but also flags them with a "little > star" (in the beginning of the subject field). If I refresh my folder the > message is still bold but the "little star" is gone. > > Running dovecot CLI queries with doveadm search/fetch the "little star" > shown in Thunderbird seems to be consistent with Dovecots use of the \Recent > flag as an indication for first-time indexing by the dovecot backend. > > /Uffe > This sounds like a read-only form of the "Recent" status could be implemented on courier MailDir as "Message was in tmp when the client asked about the Recent flag". As I understand the MailDir format, this would cause the "Recent" status to be set the first time a message is seen by any client (IMAP or otherwise), as any MailDir client will move the message file to "cur" on sight.
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