Gmail IMAP and marking messages as "read"

[Ryan Giobbi]

Has anyone figured out how to get cone to mark read mail messages as "read"
when using Gmail's IMAP service?

I tried the ubuntu dpkg (http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/mail/cone) and
compiled the most recent version and had the same problem.

Thanks in advance,

Ryan



-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft
Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.
http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
_______________________________________________
Courier-cone mailing list
Courier-cone@...
Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-cone

[Sam Varshavchik]

ryan,,, writes:

> Has anyone figured out how to get cone to mark read mail messages as "read"
> when using Gmail's IMAP service?

Cone does not mark messages as read. It is the IMAP server's responsibility
to mark messages as read, and Cone reflects the message status, as reported
by the IMAP server.

This appears to be a bug in Gmail's IMAP implementation. Gmail's IMAP server
does not mark messages as read, after their content is downloaded by the
client using the FETCH (BODY[]) command. Report this problem to Google, and
advise them to review the description of FETCH (BODY[]) and FETCH
(BODY.PEEK[]) IMAP commands.




-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft
Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.
http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
_______________________________________________
Courier-cone mailing list
Courier-cone@...
Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-cone

[Ryan Giobbi]

Sam Varshavchik writes:

> ryan,,, writes:
>
>> Has anyone figured out how to get cone to mark read mail messages as "read"
>> when using Gmail's IMAP service?
>
> Cone does not mark messages as read. It is the IMAP server's responsibility
> to mark messages as read, and Cone reflects the message status, as reported
> by the IMAP server.
>
> This appears to be a bug in Gmail's IMAP implementation. Gmail's IMAP server
> does not mark messages as read, after their content is downloaded by the
> client using the FETCH (BODY[]) command. Report this problem to Google, and
> advise them to review the description of FETCH (BODY[]) and FETCH
> (BODY.PEEK[]) IMAP commands.
>

Thanks for the quick reply. I will report this to Google.

I notice that Alpine (pine) doesn't exhibit this behavior, maybe they have
worked around Google's problem somehow though.

An unrelated question that I should probably start a new thread for...how
can I set my From: name? Currently its ryan,,,

Thanks again for the help.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft
Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.
http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
_______________________________________________
Courier-cone mailing list
Courier-cone@...
Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-cone

[Sam Varshavchik]

ryan,,, writes:

> Sam Varshavchik writes:
>
>> ryan,,, writes:
>>
>>> Has anyone figured out how to get cone to mark read mail messages as "read"
>>> when using Gmail's IMAP service?
>>
>> Cone does not mark messages as read. It is the IMAP server's responsibility
>> to mark messages as read, and Cone reflects the message status, as reported
>> by the IMAP server.
>>
>> This appears to be a bug in Gmail's IMAP implementation. Gmail's IMAP server
>> does not mark messages as read, after their content is downloaded by the
>> client using the FETCH (BODY[]) command. Report this problem to Google, and
>> advise them to review the description of FETCH (BODY[]) and FETCH
>> (BODY.PEEK[]) IMAP commands.
>>
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. I will report this to Google.
>
> I notice that Alpine (pine) doesn't exhibit this behavior, maybe they have
> worked around Google's problem somehow though.
>
> An unrelated question that I should probably start a new thread for...how
> can I set my From: name? Currently its ryan,,,

Press CTRL-F to view full headers, and edit it. When you send it, you will
be prompted to keep the new From: header as a default.



-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft
Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.
http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
_______________________________________________
Courier-cone mailing list
Courier-cone@...
Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-cone