[IMAP] Read status not propagating to server

While experimenting with Eudora's IMAP support, I found that when I set
a message's Status to Read in Eudora, Mail.app on my iTouch still
receives it as unread. (Not so the other way around.) So it looks like
Eudora doesn't tell the IMAP server that a message has been read.

Am I missing some setting? Is this a known bug? Any workarounds?

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On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:09:57 -0500, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:

> While experimenting with Eudora's IMAP support, I found that when I set
> a message's Status to Read in Eudora, Mail.app on my iTouch still
> receives it as unread. (Not so the other way around.) So it looks like
> Eudora doesn't tell the IMAP server that a message has been read.
>
> Am I missing some setting? Is this a known bug? Any workarounds?

It's a bug if the mailbox was first re-synchronized by Eudora,
following any changes made locally, and of course
if the Mail.app client is also paying attention
to the global status, otherwise not.

The topic "Resynchronizing an IMAP Mailbox or Folder"
may be found in the Eudora manual.

Other clients can also be used to compare effects between clients,
including even "webmail" IMAP clients; for example,
http://mail2web.com has an "advanced login"
where one may choose to use IMAP.

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In article <op.ufotmpkinn735j@miu.edu>,
"John H Meyers" <jhmeyers@nomail.invalid> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:09:57 -0500, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
>
> > While experimenting with Eudora's IMAP support, I found that when I set
> > a message's Status to Read in Eudora, Mail.app on my iTouch still
> > receives it as unread. (Not so the other way around.) So it looks like
> > Eudora doesn't tell the IMAP server that a message has been read.
> >
> > Am I missing some setting? Is this a known bug? Any workarounds?
>
> It's a bug if the mailbox was first re-synchronized by Eudora,

Ah, right. I didn't realize Eudora only resyncs when fetching mail, not
right upon changing a message's status.

I compared with a webmail client, thanks for that idea. It shows
messages as read after both either Eudora or the iTouch have marked them
as read (and resunced with the server). In fact, during *this* test run
I found that the read status was picked up on by both Eudora and the
iTouch...

So that suggests that both mail clients in fact do behave proper. When I
test them. Now if only they'd behave as proper in daily use.

Seems to be another one of those intertwined with the phase of the moon
ones.

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Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>

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