Re: offlineimap, mutt and exchange.

[Jon Riddle <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm getting the same thing (kind of).  I use offlineimap to sync between
two BincIMAP servers.  One of those is at home, where I use Mutt to
access the Maildir directly.  As soon as it syncs, Mutt changes the
message from N (new) to O (old).  

This may be Binc specific (then again, it may not), but I noticed that
when a message is considered new by Mutt, it's in the /new/ folder:

Mail/INBOX/new/1142602523.M416790P11003.bacon

but as soon as offlineimap hits it, it gets moved to the /cur/ folder
without a seen flag (S) on it:

Mail/INBOX/cur/1142602523.M416790P11003.bacon:2,

Then, of course, when it has been read, the Seen flag gets appended per
the Maildir spec:

Mail/INBOX/cur/1142602523.M416790P11003.bacon:2,S

This may be Maildir-specific, but I suspect that it's a Mutt thing.
Most IMAP clients I know of don't differentiate between new, old, and
read - they just know read and unread.

That's my 2 cents - hope it helps...

Jon

> 
> Hi,
> 
> In the last few days I'm using offlineimap to sync an imap enabled=20
> M$ exchange server to a local maildir that I then read with mutt.
> 
> Everything almost works perfectly except for one annoyance.
> 
> Often in Mutt messages that I have read appear in the index=20
> with the 'O' flag which is for old.
> 
>   20 r   Mar 17 Steve Traylen   (0.7K) Headphones and cameras.
>   21     Mar 17 Steve Traylen   (1.1K) =E2=94=94=E2=94=80>
>   22     Mar 17 Bruffell, J (Ja (1.6K) Angie Loveday is leaving RAL
>   23 O   Mar 17 Wheeler, JF (Jo (1.6K) [Gridpp #13015] Re: PBS JOB 228215=
> 6.csfln  24 O   Mar 17 Sansum, RA (And (0.2K) Leave this PM
> 
> Despite the fact that these messages have been read in Mutt they=20
> appear on the exchange server via outlook still as new and
> unread.
> 
> Reading the messages again in Mutt is enough to switch the messages
> to read on the imap server.
> 
> I guess the imap server is not respecting some flag that mutt is
> setting. Any ideas?
> 
>  Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --=20
> Steve Traylen
> s.traylen@xxxxxxxx
> http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/
> 
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