On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 05:10, Tony Dietrich wrote: > On Monday 03 Jan 2005 04:08, Globe Trotter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How do all these mailers tell whether an e-mail has actually been read or > > not? By that, I mean, how does pine (or sylpheed or whatever) find out if > > an e-mail has actually been read? Please note that I am not asking how they > > indicate whether an e-mail has been read or not (this is different for > > different mailers) but how to they find out whether each e-mail in the > > folder should be classified as unread or read. > > > > This may well depend on format (MH or mbox or the like) but I still wonder > > how this is settled. > > > > Thanks and best wishes! > > > If I understand correctly what you are asking, then the answer is that each > email reader keeps an internal record of whether you have viewed the emails. > > You can verify this by running two separate mail readers pointing at the same > mail directory ... each reader will show the emails as read/unread depending > on whether you have seen the email in that particular reader. > -- > Tony Dietrich I would like to interject another question: What about when using an IMAP server (Cyrus)? When I read mail on my FC3 box using evolution the mail subjects change from bold to normal indicating that the mail has been read. If I go to a Windows box on the same LAN and open Thunderbird, the emails read earlier by evolution are usually (but not always, at least not immediately) marked as read in Thunderbird. However; opening unread emails in Thunderbird (on Windows) does not mark the emails as read in evolution. Is this a bug (evolution or thunderbird)? Doesn't IMAP provide the read/unread status through the seen_db? Pressing the Get or Send/Receive button does not update the read/unread status on either evolution or thunderbird. Bob...
