On Wed, March 10, 2010 2:56 am, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > > > Karl Pearson wrote: >> >> I've posted the question before about why my unread email count is wrong >> with Squirrelmail, but I think I've figured something out, though how to >> fix it is still a mystery. >> >> It's this: I use Alpine (formerly just Pine) from the University of >> Washington because I use a text interface a lot. No one else on my >> server >> does that, and I'm the only one with the unread count messed up. >> >> If I do a search in SQM in All Folders, the count comes somewhat closer >> to >> being accurate, but slowly creeps up. >> >> I can go through all my folders and check for unread emails and mark >> them >> read (because they are, or because Alpine puts a copy in the folder I >> choose, but doesn't mark it 'read' like SQM does), which alters the >> count, >> but it continues to move up over time. >> >> Though all my email is read now, SQM reports 84 unread in all folders, >> but >> if I look in all the folders, there aren't any unread. >> >> My question then is this: >> >> Is there an absolute standard for how an email client marks a message >> 'read' and if so, who isn't following it? >> > > email client can mark message as read/unread by executing some command or > imap server marks message as read when client reads message body. IMAP > server has read/unread and recent counters. Recent counter is controlled > only by IMAP server. > > Run IMAP STATUS command on all folders. > ---- > telnet your-imap-server 143 > - some greeting > A01 login your-username your-password > - some OK response > A02 STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES RECENT UNSEEN) > - some response > A03 STATUS other-mailbox (MESSAGES RECENT UNSEEN) > - some response > - and so on for every mailbox. count numbers in all responses. > A04 LOGOUT > ---- Thanks Tomas. I'll do some work at the Dovecot level and see if something I'm doing in its setup has caused this. Karl > > There were reports about invalid message counts on SquirrelMail mailing > lists, but reporter failed to provide enough information about his issue. > Developers can't debug your problem, if they don't know all newmail plugin > user settings and IMAP STATUS responses for all folders. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Unread-Message-Count-Inaccurate-tp27846246p27847622.html > Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > ----- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > --- Karl Pearson Karlp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Owner/Administrator of the sites at http://ourldsfamily.com --- "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." --- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. --Benjamin Franklin --- Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
