| Recent change in IMAP implementation regarding "Seen" flag? | zachscrivena | 11/4/09 6:01 AM | Has there been a recent change (around 2009-11-03) in Gmail's IMAP implementation regarding when messages are marked "seen" or "read"? My email client which connects to Gmail through IMAP is suddenly causing fetched messages to be automatically mark |
| Re: Recent change in IMAP implementation regarding "Seen" flag? | bkennelly | 11/4/09 9:44 AM | i have not seen that change yet, using either Thunderbird or a terminal session. What IMAP client are you using? |
| Re: Recent change in IMAP implementation regarding "Seen" flag? | gabe17 | 11/4/09 10:29 AM | Read this article about the issue. Not sure about the fix though... http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/04/nasty-gmail-bug-erroneously-marks-unread-e-mails-as-read/ |
| Re: Recent change in IMAP implementation regarding "Seen" flag? | bkennelly | 11/4/09 10:46 AM | So, the "bug" is that Google fixed an old bug? The IMAP specification requires that messages fetched with the FETCH .. BODY command be marked as seen, but Google did not do so. Many users have asked for this fix. (I have not seen this change in my |
| Re: Recent change in IMAP implementation regarding "Seen" flag? | Shirley | 11/5/09 2:29 PM | Hi zachscrivena, Thanks for posting (and thanks to bkennelly for jumping in on this issue)! You're right that we made a change to Gmail IMAP yesterday. The change was intended to to fix a minor but long-standing bug (which bkennelly mentioned), but |
| Re: Recent change in IMAP implementation regarding "Seen" flag? | zachscrivena | 11/6/09 1:42 PM | Thanks to all for your replies! The problem was temporary, as explained by Shirley. I will work on a fix for the client so that it doesn't break when Gmail pushes their IMAP bug fix.(For the record, the email client is GmailAssistant, which uses Java |
| Re: Recent change in IMAP implementation regarding "Seen" flag? | Demnet | 5/20/10 3:55 PM | Hello, since yesterday began to appear all mail marked as read. After seeing several posts, disable a program I use "Gmail_Backup" accessed through IMAP. I use it for several months and had no problems so far. Another thing I noticed is that when en |
| Re: Recent change in IMAP implementation regarding "Seen" flag? | bkennelly | 5/20/10 4:43 PM | I just tested with my account, and verified that the fix Shirley mentioned above is now active again. Apparently, if Gmail-Backup is causing your messages to be marked as Seen, then it is using the wrong fetch commands. You should contact the devel |