Re: Patch to conditionally set IMAP \Seen flag

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 6:30 PM Charles Cazabon <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Robert Tsai <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > There's something I'm not understanding here.  This setting of the
> \Seen
> > > flag only happens when getmail is deleting the message from the IMAP
> > > server.  So other clients shouldn't see the message at all unless they
> get
> > > to it before getmail does.
>
> However, I think your explanation here points out the bit I wasn't seeing:
>
> >    1. I have a Gmail account, which I normally read through the web app
> or
> >    on my phone with the Gmail app. I use getmail on my Linux machine to
> keep a
> >    local backup of my mail.
> >    2. My Gmail account is set up to apply a "NotBackedUp" label to all
> new
> >    mail
> >    3. getmail runs every 5 minutes (e.g., more frequently than I read
> mail
> >    through web app or phone) to download from NotBackedUp, with
> read_all=False
> >    and delete=True.
>
> I *think* what you're saying is that you've configured getmail to pull mail
> from a Gmail-specific virtual IMAP folder which consists of messages that
> have
> the NotBackedUp label applied to them.  getmail sets \Seen and \Deleted on
> the
> messages after retrieving them, to delete them.  But Gmail's magic
> folder/label confusion causes the copy of the message in your INBOX to
> *also*
> be marked read.
>
> Do I understand you correctly?


Yes, that is exactly it. Marking a message as \Seen in the NotBackedUp
"folder" also causes the same message in "Inbox" to also be marked read.

Thank you,
--Rob