#3490: IMAP: ignores \Recent flag but rolls its own replacement
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Reporter: antonio@… | Owner: brendan
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: trivial | Milestone:
Component: IMAP | Version: 1.5.21
Keywords: |
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Comment(by brendan):
We used \Recent for a long time, but it is unfortunately a very unreliable
flag. It can't be changed explicitly, and is easily lost by implicit
actions performed by things like biff clients, or closing mailboxes with
\Recent messages. After many bug reports that were due to \Recent's poor
semantics, we gave up on it. There may be ways to improve old message
handling, but simply using \Recent is a step backwards. Possibly it could
be a configuration variable for people in environments where \Recent
behaves acceptably.
I don't think there's any violation of the RFC here. The problem is in
part due to the RFC's poor specification of \Recent semantics.
By the way, "old" messages do not overlap with read messages.
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