There is a known issue with OE 5.5 and newly 
read messages suddenly becoming unread again.

Could this bug be related to the recently fixed
signalling bug in 2.0.9?

I do not understand the IMAP spec enough to 
answer who's bug this is, but here is my assertion.

OE opens multiple connections to the server.

One of these connections gets the new messages
and then tells the server to update the SEEN
state (which the server does, I can confirm this).

Next, the other connection gets control and for
some reason has not yet been told that there is 
a new SEEN state (which it might be expecting if
it had issued an IDLE command) and therefore loads
what it believes to be the correct SEEN state into
the client mailbox.  I do not believe that OE 
reinitializes the SEEN state on the server, the
second connection just doesn't get the message it
changed.

Can anyone here confirm, deny, or otherwise give
plausibility to this assertion?

-- Michael --

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