IMAP stealing mail??

[David Loszewski]

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 07:19, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:23:50PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 15:04, lewiz wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:33:40PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote:
> > > > squirrelmail on my webserver.  Once I grab my mail using one of these
> > > > webmail clients it's as if it's actually popping the mail from the
> > > > mailserver instead of just imapping it so when i go to my desktop mail
> > > > client it says I have no mail yet unless I have not used the webmail
> > > 
> > > Just a guess but are you sure by ``no mail'' it doesn't mean ``no new
> > > mail''?  If you read new mail via WWW it would change the flags and
> > > indicate the mail had been read.
> > > 
> > >   Best wishes,
> > > 
> > > -lewiz.
> > yea, if I don't touch the mail and it stays unread it won't show up in
> > my mail client if I logged into my webclient. Only messages that I had
> > after logging out of my webclient will show in my mail client.
> 
> What mail client are you using on your desktop?  If it's some kind of POP3
> arrangement (using fetchmail or something similar) I can quite believe it
> would only notice mail that arrived since the last IMAP session.
> 
> Personally I'd just run an IMAP client on my desktop as well -- that should
> be able to see all the mail on the server, whether it's been read or not.
> 
> 	Scott
> 

yea, but then it doesn't grab the mail from the server.  It doesn't
matter what mail client I use, I've tried Ximian Evolution as well as
Microsoft Outlook Express.

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David Loszewski
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