Re: offlineimap, mutt and exchange.

[Steve Traylen <s.traylen@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:06:01PM -0600 or thereabouts, Jon Riddle wrote:
> I was responding more to Steve Traylen's original message, though now
> that I have reread the post, I think his is different problem than
> either of ours.  I was wondering if your Mutt access was through IMAP to
> try to isolate the cause.

I'm using offlineimap_4.0.11.tar.gz with
Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29)

I'm  not accessing the imap server with mutt as well, offlineimap
is the only imap client I am using at the moment. 

But also I have outlook running now and again to set up the server
side mail filters. I'll try and work out if outlook running is 
what causes the strangness.

 Steve


> 
> As John Goerzen pointed out, as of 3.99.2, offlineimap moves messages
> from /new to /cur, which is what is changing my messages in Mutt from N
> to O (I'm using 4.0.11).  You are correct in that this is a different
> problem than yours, and apparently from Steve's as well.  I'll start
> another thread with my question.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> > Content-Length: 1719
> > 
> > Jon,
> > 
> > Jon Riddle <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > If it's an Exchange thing, then why am I getting the same thing?  I'm
> > > syncing between two BincIMAP servers. 
> > 
> > I believe that you and I are /not/ seeing the same problem.  As I said
> > in an earlier email, I do not have any problems with messages moved
> > between directories; those movements all seem correct to me.  What I
> > am seeing is strange flags appended to the info portions of Maildir
> > messages in the cur directory.  See my original post on this: 
> > http://lists.complete.org/offlineimap@xxxxxxxxxxxx/2006/03/msg00000.html.gz
> > 
> > I just re-read your original mail and it seems like your problem is
> > that messages go from N to O, whereas mine is that messages go from
> > nothing to O.
> >  
> > > Andrew, are you using Mutt through your IMAP server, or directly
> > > accessing the Maidir?
> > 
> > Mutt accesses the Maildir directly and does not use IMAP at all.
> > 
> > > It seems to me that Mutt and offlineimap are doing what they are
> > > supposed to do, in that once a message has been seen by a mail reading
> > > program, that message is moved to the /cur folder with a ,2: appended to
> > > the filename.  I think the option should exist in offlineimap not to
> > > move new messages to /cur.  In my situation (and I suspect many
> > > others'), I don't want the offlineimap sync to be considered "seen by a
> > > mail client" (which is the trigger that moves a message from /new to
> > > /cur).  As a workaround, this guy:
> > > http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas/mutt.html
> > > has a script (bottom of the page) that marks messages as new again.
> > > Obviously not a long-term solution, but maybe a quick fix?
> > 
> > Are you saying that offlineimap always moves messages from new to cur,
> > even without having opened the message in Mutt?
> > 
> 
> 

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Steve Traylen
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