Re: Outlook express and Linux email server

Hongwei,

This is normal as the "Read" or "Unread" flag is at the client (in your case
Outlook express) and not on the server.

-Girish

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:40 PM
Subject: Outlook express and Linux email server


> Hi,
>
> I want to know if other people have the same situation as we have with
> outlook express and linux email server (rh7.3) as described below:
>
> Our email server is RH7.3 sendmail-8.11.6-27.73.  Suppose a user has 2
> computers (say one at office, and one at home), and he sets up outlook
> express to handle his emails on both computers and select "Leave a copy
> of messages on server; Remove from server when deleted from 'Deleted
> Items' ".
>
> Suppose he receives 10 new emails.  He goes to computer 1 and uses
> outlook express to read these mails. They apprear as new mails (bold in
> outlook express).  After he reads all of them, they appear as read mails
> (not bold).  Then, he closes outlook express, and goes to computer 2.  He
> opens outlook express there, and gets these 10 emails.  The "problem" is
> even he already read these emails on computer 1, they still appear as new
> emails on computer 2's outlook express.
>
> Another case is that if a user uses pine to read mails first.  The mails
> will appear as read (no mark 'N') in pine.  However, when he opens
> outlook express later, he still receive these mails as new (bold).  I
> feel that the cause of this "problem" or "feature" is the same as above.
>
> This "feature" bothers our users and I want to know if this is normal,
> standard feature, or it is due to incorrect setting?  Is there any way to
> "fix" it?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Hongwei
>
>
>
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