geeky question on read/unread mail

[Sam Varshavchik]

Bob Chiodini writes:

> Thunderbird.  However; opening unread emails in Thunderbird (on Windows)
> does not mark the emails as read in evolution.  Is this a bug (evolution
> or thunderbird)?  Doesn't IMAP provide the read/unread status through
> the seen_db?

There's no such thing as "seen_db" in IMAP.  There is, however, a \Seen flag 
that indicates whether the message was read.

It's possible that Evolution shows a message as unread if it never seen the 
messag before, and it ignores the \Seen flag.   That would be a bug in 
Evolution.

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