Unread / new message indicators not displayed automatically?

[Nicolas Schmitz]

Hello,
this is a client behaviour : by default the client only check for new 
message in the inbox folder. But you can tell him to check new message 
in the other folders :
in thunderbird, display the properties of the folder "folder1" (right 
clic - properties), and activate "Check this folder for new messages"


Ralph Seichter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having some trouble with unread / new message flags. As I have
> not found something in the mailing list archives or the Cyrus IMAP
> Wiki, I thought it best to ask here.
> 
> Here's an example mailbox setup for user "john":
> 
>   user.john (\HasChildren)
>   user.john.Drafts (\HasNoChildren)
>   user.john.Sent (\HasNoChildren)
>   user.john.Trash (\HasNoChildren)
>   user.john.folder1 (\HasNoChildren)
>   user.john.folder2 (\HasNoChildren)
> 
> I'm using a Sieve script to file incoming mail into folders:
> 
>   if header :contains "List-Id" "foo-list"
>   {
>     fileinto "INBOX.folder1";
>   }
>   elsif header :contains "List-Id" "bar-list"
>   {
>     fileinto "INBOX.folder2";
>   }
> 
> Cyrus IMAP files e-mail into the folders I specified, but the IMAP
> clients do not show an indicator for new/unread messages in the
> folders until the user manually selects the folder. I've tried this
> using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 and Mulberry 3.x, the results are the
> same. If no Sieve rule matches and the message is thus, by an implicit
> "keep" action, filed in the INBOX (user.john), unread indicators are
> displayed without prior user interaction.
> 
> Is this behaviour caused by Cyrus IMAP / Sieve or by the clients? What
> can I do to have the "there are {n} new messages in this folder"
> indicators be displayed automatically?
> 


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