Re: IMAP mail

[Elton Darby <elton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apple's OSX mail_Client works flawlessly for me; Office X's Entourage 
is even more efficient with large IMAP histories; it spends far less 
time caching/indexing/synchronizing than Apple's OSX mail_client.

> moving a message from one IMAP folder to another will mark the 
> message as unread.

I have never tired; not sure I would want to ;)

> The other bug that bothers me a great deal is when I get a single 
> piece of new mail filtered into an IMAP folder, I can never see it 
> in the list when I switch to that folder.

> If there's anything I would wish for from further P.O updates, fixes 
> for these bugs would top my list.

IMO, all of these issues are mail_client issues -- not a PO bug.


Elton

On Nov 18, 2003, at 11:29 PM, Harry MF Teasley wrote:

> I've noticed this with Mail.app, and mentioned it to Tenon, but I 
> wanted to point out that testing Mozilla recently I see the same 
> behavior: moving a message from one IMAP folder to another will mark 
> the message as unread.  If it doesn't mark the message as unread 
> during the current client session, it will definitely be marked as 
> unread after quitting and restarting the client.
>
> I have another IMAP account that does not run on P.O and does not 
> exhibit this behavior, so I don't think the client apps are at 
> fault.  This is one bug that I would dearly love to see fixed.
>
> The other bug that bothers me a great deal is when I get a single 
> piece of new mail filtered into an IMAP folder, I can never see it 
> in the list when I switch to that folder.  It will absolutely not 
> appear, and the folder will be marked, on that visit, as having no 
> unread message in it.  Once the folder has been fully cached, I can 
> switch out, and then back in, and lo, the message will be there, 
> unread.  Does anyone else see this behavior?
>
> If there's more than one new message in a folder, I do not see this 
> problem.  To be clear, though, I can't be certain that this isn't a 
> client problem.  If there's anything I would wish for from further 
> P.O updates, fixes for these bugs would top my list.
>
> Harry Teasley
>
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