From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 05:20:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211DE37B404 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 05:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B212243F93 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 05:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.199]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20030713122039.WCAG18592.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:20:39 +0100 Received: from scott by llama.fishballoon.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19bfpb-000EBL-U3; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:19:55 +0100 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:19:55 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: David Loszewski Message-ID: <20030713121955.GD96366@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <1058042020.55759.12.camel@hades.bsdadmins.net> <20030712200442.GA12329@lewiz.org> <1058045030.55759.23.camel@hades.bsdadmins.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1058045030.55759.23.camel@hades.bsdadmins.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386 Sender: Scott Mitchell cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" cc: lewiz Subject: Re: IMAP stealing mail?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:20:42 -0000 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