Agreed… Is Mailmate an option for you?
> On Aug 10, 2020, at 7:51 PM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> wrote: > > > Antonio> Thanks a million for your insight. I believe this is the thread to > which you refer: > > Antonio> https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2019-October/117219.html > > Yes, that's the thread. It looks like it's an Apple Mail client > bug/feature/screwup. I hate it, since it messes up my main text based > mail reader doing IMAP. > > Maybe I need to move to Mutt finally. Ugh... re-programming my > fingers for a new mail reader won't be fun at all. > > John > > > Antonio> On Jul 30, 2020, at 5:48 AM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> > wrote: > > Antonio> "Antonio" == Antonio Leding > <t...@leding.net> writes: > > Antonio> Hello all… > Antonio> First, a disclaimer…I am aware that this is very likely not a > Dovecot related issue > Antonio> but I am truly pulling whatever hair I have left out of my head > and given the brain-power of > Antonio> this mailer, I thought someone might know what is going in here. > > Antonio> The issues is this… > > Antonio> I check the message counts for a given account using doveadm > Antonio> and get a given number. I then configure the same account in > Antonio> 3 mail clients: Apple Mail, Mailmate, and Thunderbird. Both > Antonio> the Mailmate and Thunderbird message counts match exactly > Antonio> with the doveadm numbers. Apple Mail is low in almost all > Antonio> cases. > > Antonio> I think the problem is that Apple probably uses "SELECT INBOX" > instead > Antonio> of "EXAMINE" mailbox. Look in the archives for my question > about this > Antonio> issue back in Oct 1, 2019. It's a client issue, and (imho) a > mistake > Antonio> in the IMAP specification. But I haven't spent any time reading > the > Antonio> spec closely to understand the reasoning. > > Antonio> John >
