How to tell POP3 daemon to mark messages as read?

[David Carter]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Georgy Goshin wrote:

> Is it possible to mark all messages downloaded via POP3 daemon as read 
> so that next time user connected via IMAP could see wich messages are 
> new?

No, the POP daemon doesn't open the seen message database. There would
be a fairly substantial performance hit if it did.

I believe (its been some time now) that the UW server works the way that 
you want. The POP protocol doesn't have any concept of \Seen messages, so 
there isn't really a right or wrong way to do this.

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