[imp] Unseen and Unread

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

| Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:
|
| > 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.
|
| Right, but you still need to check the flag to make sure you show the
| status
| correctly (as "new"). Otherwise the status of the message can show up as
| read,
| then  new, on two subsequent page loads.

That's why we check:
if (($ob->Unseen == 'U') || ($ob->Recent == 'N'))  [imp/lib/Headers.php:163]

when we determine if a message is "Unread" or not.  Stupid IMAP flags.

michael

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