On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 19:20 +0100, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote:

> Il giorno mar, 11/02/2014 alle 10.13 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan ha
> scritto:
> > On 10 February 2014 15:45, Ambrogio De Lorenzo <ogio.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Fetchmail supports IMAP as well as POP (see for example:
> > >> http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=5590) so I still think it's a
> > >> possible workaround even if not ideal..
> > > Yes I know, but if I read a message with Evo, it remain to be read on
> > > other devices.
> > 
> > Not sure I understand. Do you mean that fetchmail does not mark the
> > message as Read on the server? Marking a message as Read is something
> > the IMAP server does automatically. It would be different if you
> > wanted to flip the state to Unread, since AFAIK fetchmail doesn't
> > support that. However I haven't used fetchmail in a long time so I may
> > have this completely wrong. I do know there's a fetchmail option to
> > leave messages on the server or to delete them, but I forget which is
> > the default.
> Hi poc,
> I mean that if I read a message with evolution connected to an IMAP
> server, in a few seconds I will see it read also on other devices.
> This is not true if I fetch mails.
> 
> Bye
>  Ambrogio
> 
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This quote is from
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-man.html#6

> The IMAP code uses the presence or absence of the server flag \Seen to
> decide whether or not a message is new. This isn’t the right thing to
> do, fetchmail should check the UIDVALIDITY and use UID, but it doesn’t
> do that yet. Under Unix, it counts on your IMAP server to notice the
> BSD-style Status flags set by mail user agents and set the \Seen flag
> from them when appropriate. All Unix IMAP servers we know of do this,
> though it’s not specified by the IMAP RFCs. If you ever trip over a
> server that doesn’t, the symptom will be that messages you have
> already read on your host will look new to the server. In this
> (unlikely) case, only messages you fetched with fetchmail --keep will
> be both undeleted and marked old.


There is an example dialog showing the \Seen IMAP flag:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol#Dialog_example

HTH -- Rick

http://CirrusComputing.com/ 

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