Steve,
I have a similar problem to you, I use both MS Outlook and Mozilla at
work (I keep both for testing purposes etc.etc.etc...). When A new email
comes in and both programs report a new email, if I go to MS Outlook and
read the message it gets flagged as read. I have Mozilla set to a 5
minute interval for checking messages. Even after several hours, mozilla
-still- believes those messages that I've read on the server, and even
moved to another folder are still unread and the folder appears in bold
with the number of unread messages next to the folder name.
Am I wrong in thinking that checking for new mail messages should
refresh the inbox completely? And remove the boldness and number of
unread messages when it does so?
Although both clients run on the same machine in my situation I do also
have Mozilla at home running against the same email server to work and
that one still reports all messages I've received (and read at work) as
being unread still.
As for deleting messages, that never seems to work for me, I can move
them to "Trash" as per the option in preferences okay but then I get a
folder called "Trash" on the IMAP server (MS Exchange 5.5). MS Exchange
2000 might fix that as a server side thing (or could be an MS Exchange
config/feature?)
And if this is MS not following RFC is someone going to tell them?
Nigel
Steve Sobel wrote:
> I have a problem with IMAP, and it seems to only be on some servers.
>
> The whole point of IMAP is to be able to check the same account from
> multiple locations. So please, don't bother replying if you're going to
> tell me that the setup I have is unnecessary, or should be done a
> different way. It works fine in Outlook, much as I'm not a fan of Outlook.
>
> Anyhow, the situation:
>
> I have mozilla running at home, and at work, checking the same two email
> accounts - both running on different email servers.
>
> On email accounts A and B, the following behavior occurs (A being the
> correct behavior):
>
> account A) I get home from work, having read all of the messages that
> came to me that day, and I look at my mozilla mail at home - and all the
> messages are marked read. I have 0 new messages (unless I got one while
> I was driving home, anyhow).
>
> account B) Messages I have read and even deleted still appear in my
> inbox and marked as new. If I close mozilla and reopen it - the number
> of new messages is still reported incorrectly - however, after having
> closed/reopened it - if I click on that inbox, it refreshes with the
> proper number of unread/new messages (usually zero).
>
> Now, I understand that because of the fact that it works on one email
> server and doesn't on another - it may be that server B does not follow
> some RFC perfectly or something. However, outlook handles this
> discrepancy fine.
>
> That server (server B) - for your testing pleasure - is Merak Mail
> Server, by Icewarp Software - www.icewarp.com ...
>
> Anyone know if this is the kind of thing that may get looked into? Or
> will Mozilla folks go "tell them to follow the damn RFC, screw off"?
>
> Steve
>
