I'm not sure. IMAP definitely supports updating the read flag across all
devices. If I read a message on my PC with thunderdird, it shows up as
read on my iPhone and anywhere else I choose to check my email. I
suppose there are email clients that don't update the read flag, for
example, this is configurable in Thunderbird. I use the preview pane, I
did bump up the time I need to spend in am email message in Thunderbird
before it gets marked as read, since I didn't want my messages to be
markd as read if I was just arrowing down through my in box.
I use Gmail, and I don't see this behavior on my iPhone, so I suspect
it's a result of how people read and manage their email and not a bug in
the mail client or in Gmail. I suspect this comes up in the podcast
since Gmail is the most popular email provider. I'd also think that
you'd see the same thing with Exchange if you managed your mail in
Exchange the same way as those people who are seeing the problem with
Gmail manage their email.
On 02/08/2014 04:01 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
No, but I have heard several people call in to the Today in iOS Podcast who
had the same issue and this issue always concerned gmail accounts. How can
somebody have 96,000 or whatever ridiculous number of unread emails?
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 1:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: one quite annnoying bug in mail
I'm not sure what you're differing with me on. I use Gmail, and I only
see that the messages I haven't read yet, either on my iPhone or my PC,
show up as unread. I see the same thing on my PC or my iPhone. I assume
the person who asked the question is seeing thousands of unread messages
on their iPhone and would see the same thing on their PC or any other
system where they check their email. Are you saying that if you had
thousands of unread messages on your Exchange account, even when viewing
it on your PC, you'd only see a handful of those unread messages on your
iPhone?
On 02/08/2014 03:31 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
Hi Christopher,
I beg to differ on that one. Yes, you are correct that the Mail app now
doesn't have a setting any more to only show the last 50 or whatever
messages. But the fact that it shows tens of thousands of unread messages
only seems to be happening with gmail. I use both Exchange and Outlook.com
(Exchange Active Sync) and I don't have the problem, I see exactly what I
see on my computer or if I log in to my account online. My Inbox is
usually
cleaned up, my work email which is Exchange may have 100 or 120 messages
in
it at times, but that's all that is shown since I either delete stuff I
don't need or I move it into a folder. I never quite understood why people
liked gmail so much, I certainly think the for the last 3 or 4 years
Hotmail/Windows Live/Outlook.com is a much better service, but of course
that is just my opinion.
Regards,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 1:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: one quite annnoying bug in mail
This isn't a bug with IOS 7 or Gmail. This is just how the email client on
the iPhone works now. Could you just start at the most recent email
message
and work your way back through the last 50 or 100 messages? This is pretty
much what I do, but if I want to read them in the other order, it's not
hard
to find the last unread message, since I don't have any unread messages
myself except for those new messages which have come in since I last
checked
my email.
If you have another email client available to you, such as Thunderbird,
you
could go in there and mark all of the messages in your in box as read.
On 02/08/2014 03:13 PM, Jordan Norregaard wrote:
I have a seriously annoying iPhone bug with IOS 7. GMail used to be
cool, you could select the top 50 or top 100 this makes it a tad mor
easier to scroll through them. Does anyone have a solution to simply
get the 50 messages and not the 82,000 other messages I haven't read
yet? NO, that is not a typo! ANy help is appreciated...I need my
email back!
Thanks in advance
Jordan
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