[MlMt] read msg marking

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 5 Aug 2016, at 17:29, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> Thanks Sherif. Hopefully, this makes it into the documentation one of 
> these days.

In case some might have missed it, but Benny made it possible for anyone 
to contribute
to the manual: https://github.com/mailmate/mailmate_manual :)

/max

> Robert
>
> On 05.08.2016 at 10:57 Uhr -0400 Sherif Soliman apparently wrote:
>
>> On 4 Aug 2016, at 19:23, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>
>> The column "unread" in the list view shows a circle if the message is 
>> unread or is empty. I see those circles in at least 3 colors: blue, 
>> red, gray. However, I can't seem to find their explanation in the 
>> manual.
>
>> Hi Robert,
>
>> The blue and grey are simple to explain:
>
>>   * Blue: indicates a single unread message.
>>   * Grey: You should only see grey next to a thread, not a single 
>> message. Grey means that the thread has a mix of unread and read 
>> messages. A thread that contains messages that are all unread should 
>> have blue next to it, and a thread of all read messages should have 
>> neither blue nor grey next to it.
>>
>
>> The red one requires a more detailed explanation, and I will quote 
>> Bill Cole from this previous message on the list:
>
>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mailmate%40lists.freron.com/msg05861.html>
>
>> On 18 Mar 2016, at 10:44, Bill Cole wrote:
>
>> It means that you use another client in addition to MailMate with 
>> that source account and that the other client handles message 
>> deletion in a classical IMAP mode. This means that messages get 
>> marked with the "\Deleted" flag when the user deletes them, but do 
>> not REALLY get deleted until the mailbox or (if the server & 
>> client support the UIDPLUS extension) the individual message is 
>> purged. Some servers auto-purge mailboxes or individual \Deleted 
>> messages based on various criteria and some clients do as well, 
>> although some client+server combinations will never purge anything 
>> unless the user explicitly commands it.
>
>> So: a red dot in the "Read" column means that something other than 
>> MailMate marked the message for deletion but has not yet told the 
>> server to purge it.
>
>> The mechanics of handling message deletion and presentation of 
>> recoverable "deleted" messages vary broadly between IMAP clients. 
>> MailMate uses a very conservative approach of not purging messages it 
>> did not flag \Deleted, although I don't know how it manages that on 
>> servers without UIDPLUS support (which was a requirement for early 
>> versions of MailMate.)
>
>> Sherif
>
>>
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