[Dovecot] RECENT status always 0

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 14 18:27:09 EET 2012


On 14.3.2012, at 18.06, Arnaud Abélard wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we are using dovecot 2.0.13 with maildir++ (we migrated away from courrier just a few months ago) and the RECENT status doesn't seem to be working:
> 
> . STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT)
> * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 35106 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 10)
> 
> then 2 minutes later:
> 
> . STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT)
> * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 35106 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 11)
> 
> How can the UNSEEN count change without the RECENT count changing accordingly?

If any client has the INBOX opened, the recent count for other connections stays at 0. I guess you're expecting recent flags to work differently than how IMAP RFC specifies them. (It's entirely possible that Courier implemented them in the wrong way.)



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