Re: Messages moved from /new to /cur

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:19:55PM -0600, Jon Riddle wrote:
> It seems that, as of 3.99.2, OfflineIMAP moves messages from /new to
> /cur whenever it syncs.  The changelog entry states that this occurs
> "when flags have changed on the server", but in my case, this is
> happening anytime OfflineIMAP syncs my account.  Is this correct?
> According to the Maildir spec (actually, the official man page),
> messages are supposed to be moved to /cur when a mail client has seen
> the messages, and the S flag appended when the user has read the
> messages.  Is OfflineIMAP considered a mail client?  If so, can this

It's a gray area.  I don't believe it is really documented anywhere what
the proper behavior should be; the Maildir spec obviously does not
consider the case where the flags for a message have changed remotely.

Does it actually cause you a problem?  It seems that most mail readers
don't expect files in new to have been read.

-- John