[IMail Forum] pop3 message status

[Chris Maccioli]

Good day all, Just curious if anyone knows of a method for determininig the status of mail messages in a users mailbox.  ie. wether the message has already been read via the web interface or downloaded to a client?  I would like to use a pop3 component to check a users mailbox without actually getting the mail and notify them if they have any "unread" messages.  A little history:  I am using an SQL DB for imail, which is the same username and password that a user will use to login to my site.  When a user logs into my site I would like to check his mailbox for new messages and display a message on the users personal page that he has unread mail.  I am doing this right now, but whenever I check for mail, it counts all of the messages in the mailbox whether the user has read them or not.  In general how does Imail know when a user has viewed a message and display the open mail icon?