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Mark Crispin  
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 More options Nov 22 2007, 10:59 am
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From: Mark Crispin <m...@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:59:51 -0800
Local: Thurs, Nov 22 2007 10:59 am
Subject: Re: GMail and IMAP : strange behaviour
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Gmail does not support all of the facilities of IMAP yet, including the
facility (recent flags) that Pine and Alpine uses to position the cursor.

I am trying to convince the Gmail developers that it is important to
implement all the facilties of IMAP.  Some things are not easy for them,
given the way that their mail store works, and they would like to omit
things that "nobody" uses.  Unfortunately, all too often, "nobody" means
Pine and Alpine; or, put another way "anything other than Outlook."

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Nobody wrote:
> Hi, I noticed some strange behaviours while using Gmail through IMAP. I
> don't remember everything now, but one thing first: when I open a folder
> on another IMAP account, the cursor will be on the first unread message;
> when I open my GMail INBOX, the cursor in on the first message at the
> top of my box (it should be at the bottom, most often on the last
> message since I often only have ONE unread message). I think I even saw
> (but I am not quite sure of that, maybe a dream?) the cursor on the
> second line of my box when having two unread message. Why?

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.


 
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