geeky question on read/unread mail

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Jan 3 16:25:35 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:20:02AM -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> >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.
> That's not entirely correct.  If you use Courier IMAP then the message file 
> is actually renamed.

Same if you're using any mailreader with Maildir format mailboxes.
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