I'm working on a server that cannot make a message unseen
once it's been marked seen. I've tried returning untagged
fetch responses to store attempts to clear the seen flag,
like so (assuming message 1 is already seen):
c: xyzzy store 1 -flags (\seen)
s: * 1 fetch (flags (\seen))
s: xyzzy OK
but the clients I've tried (Outlook Express 5 and a fairly
old version of Netscape Communicator) seem to completely
ignore the untagged response (the message starts out looking
seen in the client, after marking the message unseen via
their user interface even with the untagged fetch response
the message is displayed as unseen). I've tried a NO
response; this is treated as a protocol error by these
clients.
Anyone have any ideas how to better handle this situation?
Would you consider these clients broken?
Thanks,
Rick Block
Avaya Inc.
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