[MlMt] mailmate Digest, Vol 37, Issue 29

[Jean-Pierre Gattuso]

Hi there,

I do not use gmail and face the same issue.

Jean-Pierre


On 22 Apr 2014, at 18:00, mailmate-request at lists.freron.com wrote:

>> I'm having an odd issue where messages marked read or deleted on one
>> machine don't receive the same treatment on the other machine after
>> synchronization (they still appear as new messages). This is despite
>> it appearing to sync fine with GMail and my iOS clients. Any obvious
>> explanation for that?
>
>
> Not an obvious one, but maybe a non-obvious one. Gmail has this unusual
> limitation that when using the IDLE command to watch for mailbox changes
> (this is what is used for the INBOX) then flag changes are not reported.
> This is, strictly speaking, not required by the RFC for IDLE, but it
> makes it a bit pointless to use IDLE since the email client then has to
> regularly check for flag changes. This is currently not done by default
> for MailMate and based on what I have read on the IMAP protocol mailing
> list Google may be ?fixing? this issue soon.
>
> I believe explicitly synchronizing the INBOX should update flags, but I
> haven't tested this recently. There is also an experimental hidden
> preference for making MailMate regularly check for flag changes during
> IDLE (every 2 minutes):
>
> 	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmEnableKeywordsCheckInIDLEForGmail
> -bool YES
>
> This is buggy in some of the older releases, but I think it works in the
> current test release although it has not been tested extensively.
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