Hi all.
I have Cyrus IMAP 2.2.10 on 12 servers. I have noticed a strange issue when my users use IMAP service. Maybe it is a feature...
When they connect and establish session and they mark a message read, that state is not propagated to other established sessions. For instance, if I open both Outlook Express and Mozilla and send a new message to my own account, they both show it. If one or the other marks the message as read, the other client will not show it, no matter what time I chhose to wait. BUT, if I delete a message, any message, the state gets propagated to the other client. Is this normal?
The problem my users have is with the notification software. We are using "Ham", a small IMAP mail checker. So, when a new message arrives, Ham alerts the user. The user reads the mail and marks the message as unread, but Ham keeps ringing about new messages, although there is none. I would like to overcome this problem. It doesn't directly target me, I get 200+ messages daily, so notification is of no importance to me. Most of my users are not so "lucky" and they don't want to keep the email client up all the time. They would liek to have reliable new mail notification.
I could try to use POPalarm, since both POP3 and IMAP4 are enabled, but that is an ugly workaround.
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