RE: Outlook express and Linux email server

This is normal pop behaviour.  The read/unread flag is set by the mail
client in your case OE or Pine.  If you require the behaviour you
describe you may want to look into using the IMAP protocol.   It is
designed to do exactly what you want.

Raoul  

:-----Original Message-----
:From: [email protected] 
:[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
:[email protected]
:Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:41 AM
:To: [email protected]
: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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