>>>>> "Sami" == Sami Ketola via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> writes:
>> On 1 Oct 2019, at 21.45, John Stoffel via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> >> wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've been bugged by this issue for a while, and while I see that the >> \UNSEEN flag is specified in the RFC to be reset once *any* client >> connects and looks at a mailbox, I was wondering if there's a way to >> change the behavior so that it's tracked on a per-client basis? >> >> Or if there's even some way to turn it off so that both my iPhone mail >> client and my main emacs viewmail mail client don't stomp over each >> other when looking at my mail folder counts of unread messages. >> >> My mail server is running Debian 9.11, which has dovecot >> 2.2.27-3+deb9u5 as the version. I'm only running IMAP, no POP at >> all. Sami> A SELECT INBOX updates \Seen flags, A EXAMINE INBOX does not. Sami> there is no configurable value to change the behaviour. Maybe Sami> you can change your client to use EXAMINE instead of SELECT. I kinda figured it wasn't an easy issue to address. Since one of my clients is an iPhone, I doubt I can fix that client. :-) But hmm... maybe it's not the iPhone causing problems, but my emacs based mail client viewmail, and that I have the source for. Thanks for the hint, I'll see if I can chase this down more. John
