Re: Gmail IMAP and marking messages as "read"

Sam Varshavchik writes:

> ryan,,, writes:
> 
>> Has anyone figured out how to get cone to mark read mail messages as "read" 
>> when using Gmail's IMAP service? 
> 
> Cone does not mark messages as read. It is the IMAP server's responsibility 
> to mark messages as read, and Cone reflects the message status, as reported 
> by the IMAP server.
> 
> This appears to be a bug in Gmail's IMAP implementation. Gmail's IMAP server 
> does not mark messages as read, after their content is downloaded by the 
> client using the FETCH (BODY[]) command. Report this problem to Google, and 
> advise them to review the description of FETCH (BODY[]) and FETCH 
> (BODY.PEEK[]) IMAP commands.
> 

Thanks for the quick reply. I will report this to Google.

I notice that Alpine (pine) doesn't exhibit this behavior, maybe they have 
worked around Google's problem somehow though.

An unrelated question that I should probably start a new thread for...how 
can I set my From: name? Currently its ryan,,, 

Thanks again for the help. 

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