[imp] Why Are All Messages Seen?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Michael Holland <michael at blackcanyoncoffee.com>:

> I recently installed the latest released Horde Webmail package (1.0.1)
> on a company server.  It's working fine, except that the users are
> complaining that they can't tell new messages from old messages from
> read messages.  In short, there's no highlighting.
>
> After looking around a bit, it seems that every row of the inbox is
> classed as "seen" regardless of whether the message is new or old, read
> or not.  Is there some secret configuration setting to get IMP to
> properly class the messages?
>
> The mail server is POP3, if that makes any difference.

It makes all the difference. POP3 as a protocol has no concept of  
message flags. Desktop clients solve this by keeping track of  
everything themselves. IMP doesn't store all that extra data. We  
could, but it's not currently in the plans as its basically an IMAP  
client.

-chuck