Hmmm. So \Recent only exists inside the imap server and
not in the file or the filename? Does it always default
to true unless it's been changed by the client?

Is the correct behavior of an imap client to look at \Seen?
Why are there two flags? What is the distinction between
them?

thanks!

-Erin

On 2002.06.04 11:06 [Tue 11:04am] Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Erin Tomson wrote:
> 
> > With Maildir folders however, procmail doesn't seem to do the
> > correct thing. It changes the "Status" header but that doesn't help.
> > The imap server looks at the flags in the message's filename and
> > ignores the header.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to get the behavior I want here? I guess
> ideally
> > procmail would look at the header and create the filename
> appropriately,
> > but I don't think it has that functionality. Is there a way to hack
> it?
> 
> Even if there was, it may not work anyway.  There are two different
> IMAP
> flags, \Seen, and \Recent, and the filename flags only control \Seen.
> 
> \Recent is computed on the fly, and if your mail client uses the
> \Recent
> flag as a new mail indicator, setting \Seen won't make any difference.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Sam
> 
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