It has to do with how/when outlook express checks/updates messages.

The easiest way to replicate this with OE6 is to have a bunch of imap
folders, and while it's checking messages (which can take a while over slow
link) mark a message as read by opening it.  The "mark this as read" never
makes it to the server since it's still doing message checks.

My workaround i use it to not read mail until i get the new mail icon in my
tray, since that means OE is done checking mail and will be able to send the
read marks to the server.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alexander Bruns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "supervisor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [courier-users] read und unread messages in INBOX


> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Alexander Bruns wrote:
>
> >  Some have the Problem, that the newest Message in the Inbox, or here
> >  called "Posteingang", is remarked as unread, after alreadey been read
> >  on a new check for new messages.
> >
> >  Once more: I have 10 messages in my inbox, get one new it is unread, I
> >  read this one, now I have 11 MSGs in my inbox and after 10 minutes for
> >  example, I check for new messages and the latest, which I already
> >  read 10 minutes ago, is marked as new and unread.
>
> I see this too, with Outlook Express 6, but not 5.5 and earlier versions,
> or Outlook. Hard to say what's causing it, but I suspect it's a bug /
> misfeature in OE's local caching, which causes it to get out of synch with
> the IMAP store. This manifests itself with deletions and purges as well --
> you mark the message as deleted (and even purge it), press Send/Receive,
> and it pops up in your Inbox as unread again.
>
> Very annoying, but there doesn't seem to be any way to fix it, apart from
> leaving OE to synch itself against the IMAP store after a while.
>
> --
> Juha
> Take off every sig!
>
>
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