131575 - Problem with IMAP + offline folders + read messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 119205

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[fred doh]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

Since i've selected my IMAP folders to be available offline (selecting as well a
limitation in the download size to 50 KB max. per message) my inbox's new
messages always appear as unread (bold) even if i've read them. It happens since
i've set the folders offline and set the size limitation however I can't
guaranty it is the cause of the problem, I may have done other things aswell...

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1

[fred doh]

After some experiments, it appears the problems comes from the fact that Mozilla
for some reason didn't inform the IMAP server the messages where read. To
discover that, I've been using another IMAP client which showed me the messages
as unread. I've read them with that client. Then I restarted Mozilla Mail and
the mails where not marked as unread anymore.
To check whether the bug was still there, I've then sent an email to myself,
received it with Mozilla Mail, and when reading it, it apparently still didn't
inform the IMAP server. So I'm in a mode in which every time I start Mozilla
Mail new emails are left unread, whether or not I read them.

Comment 2

[axioma]

I can confirm this. I have the same problem with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build ID: 2002053012

Comment 3

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

In fact, this problem is even more general than you might have suspected --
there's an older bug that pretty much covers this one. If that one gets
resolved, and this still isn't fixed, then feel free to re-open this one.

Meanwhile, feel free to vote for bug 119205.

-M

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119205 ***