Re: Messages moved from /new to /cur

[Jon Riddle <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not a "problem", per se - just an annoyance.  When I have new
messages (N) in a folder, I can hit c to change folders and Mutt fills
in the folder for me (saves, maybe 10 keystrokes?).  It doesn't treat
old messages (O) the same way.  That actually may be a Mutt preference,
but I haven't dug into it.  I just don't see why OfflineIMAP should
change the flags at all - it isn't a mail client.  It's a synchronizer.
Like I said, not a problem - just an annoyance :-)

Jon


> 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
>