[MlMt] What do the red dots mean?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 18 Mar 2016, at 15:44, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for taking the time to explain this.

> 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.)

MailMate also has a very conservative approach to this. The `\Deleted` 
flag is simply removed (very) temporarily for the messages MailMate has 
not been told to delete/expunge itself. I seem to recall this is 
recommended in one of the RFCs, but I might be wrong.

-- 
Benny
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