Re: gmail imap and folders and thunderbird

Hi Rusty,

I haven't tried this with Thunderbird yet, but I did configure Mac OS
X Mail with a Gmail IMAP account and the folder unread count behavior
seemed normal to me; unread messages are listed next to the folder
name and are updated when I navigate to the folder and read a message.

Just noticed this. Both the total message count and the unread
message count differ between Gmail "Labels" and the equivalent IMAP
folders in Mail. I'd guess that's because of Gmail's conversation
threading message feature but I haven't verified that yet.

Tony

On Oct 24, 2007, at 3:58 PM, 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.
>
> --
> Rusty Wright
> UC Berkeley, IS&T Web Applications
> 510-643-9097office
> 925-212-3774cell

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Received on Wed Oct 24 2007 - 19:04:55 PDT