[imp] Unseen and Unread

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu
Wed Nov 26 14:18:28 PST 2003


Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

| Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:
|
| > However, I noticed when doing my changes that we don't actually check
| to see
| > if a message is "new" or not (i.e. we never do a Recent and Unseen
| check).
| > So this definitely does need to be fixed (I'm surprised this has never
| been
| > caught before).
|
| I distinctly remember dealing with this something like 4 years ago. It
| must have gotten lost somewhere along the way.

It turns out that "Recent" checking is essentially worthless since the
Recent flag disappears the first time you access the mailbox anyway, so
subsequent views of the mailbox will show the message as non-recent, even
though it has never been read.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder


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