On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:21:34PM -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote: > > Kenneth Marshall <ktm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just posted this bug to the Cyrus Bugzilla system: > > > > Bug 3329 - popuseimapflags does not pass IMAP seen -> POP3 seen > > > > and I thought I would see if anyone else in the community had > > run into this issue. Or is there a rationale behind not using > > the IMAP seen information in the POP3 message pull? > > > There is no seen state in POP3, as far as I know. > > Popuseimapflags says, if the message was RETRieved by a pop client, > set the IMAP flag to Seen. It's kind of bogus since the pop server > cannot mark which messages were really seen. With POP3, reading > messages is a local action on the end user's computer. All POP3 > does essentially is download and delete. > > Joseph Brennan > Columbia University Information Technology > Thank you. I had forgotten that bit of the RFC and made the rash assumption from the code that that information was available from the server. I will close the bug report. Regards, Ken ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
