[Users] How claws mail treats and deals with new and unread messages?

[Dedeco Balaco]

Em 22/12/2021 18:20, sylpheed at 911networks.com escreveu:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:05:27 +0100
> Michael Rasmussen via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:
>
>> According to IMAP rfc
>> (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9051#section-6.3.2)
>>
>> a message can have 2 status flags - RECENT (new), UNSEEN (not read).
>> A message with either of these flags is to be considered SEEN (read).
>> Google does not support the RECENT flag and therefore merges RECENT
>> and UNSEEN to 1 state labeled 'New'. On the other hand Claws-Mail
>> honours the IMAP rfc in which case it distinguishes between UNSEEN
>> and RECENT so that a message have the correct 3 states - New,
>> Unseen, and Read.
> My understanding is that Google/gmail doesn't follow the imap
> standard.
>
> As far as I know, gmail has only 2 statuses:
>
> * unread
> * read
>
> Then there are all kind of other flags like spam, deleted.... but
> these are not part of the imap standard.
>
> But I'm lost, at one point the OP was talking about non-gmail mail
> then it was about gmail.

My main interest is for nongmail accounts. But it is good to know how to
discover if another IMAP server follows the standard in this aspect or
not. The account i most use in my routine is yahoo, but there are others
in other services.


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