[imp] Unseen and Unread

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Wed Nov 26 14:27:07 PST 2003


Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> 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.

But isn't that exactly the meaning of "new message"?

Jan.

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