Re: gmail imap and folders and thunderbird

   A bit of context for Rusty's question, below ...

   Google just today announced the availability of IMAP access to
GMail accounts, as described in this Official Google Blog posting;

   "Free IMAP for Gmail", October 24, 2007
   http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/free-imap-for-gmail.html

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

At 15:58 -0700 2007-10-24, Rusty Wright wrote:
>I've just set up some thunderbird filters on gmail so that mail from
>mailing lists I'm on is moved to folders on gmail.
>
>When new mail comes in and triggers a filter it's put in its folder
>and the folder name is made bold and the count of unread messages in
>it is shown next to it. That's all normal and what I'm used to.
>
>But when I click on the folder, in the pane on the right it shows
>all of the message headers, but they're immediately marked as read,
>and in the folder view on the left its unread message count goes
>away and it's unbolded. So as soon as you look at a folder
>everything in it is marked as read.
>
>Is this normal imap server folder behavior or something peculiar to
>gmail's imap setup? My experience with folders up to this point has
>been to have the filter move the messages to thunderbird's Local
>Folders on my desktop machine, and there they're not marked as read
>until I open the message.

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Received on Wed Oct 24 2007 - 17:47:02 PDT