Re: [exim] Mark messages as read

Marc Sherman <msherman@???> wrote:
> On Di, 29.03.2005, 16:13, Michael F. Sprague sagte:
> >
> >>I imagine that is 100% dependent on the mailstore you are using.
> >>For example I know that Cyrus and Courier IMAP packages use
> >>different methods to mark a message as read. Then there are the
> >>different MUAs that access the messages either in mbox or maildir
> >>format.
>
> Is this really an IMAP-implementation specific thing? I thought that
> marking messages as read was just a property of the storage format --
> ie: mbox, maildir, etc. For example, in maildir, if the info section at
> the end of the filename (after ":2,") contains the S flag, the message
> is marked read. Similarly for mbox, the "Status: RO" header is added to
> read messages.
>
> Since Exim implements the various storage formats, it could conceivably
> allow a way to mark a message as read in the transport as the message is
> delivered. I'm pretty sure it doesn't, currently, though.
>
> I'd like to see that on the wishlist, myself.

I agree with you Marc, but he would definitely need to figure out how the
mailstore does it first. Then it could probably be done via exim, but how
'hard' it would be depends on the required method. :)

M

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