POP3 retvied mails should be marked as read - how?

[Georgy Goshin]

Hello,

Thanks for the answer but the answer was not do I need this or not, I've 
asked how to do it. I'll try to explain why I need this and I beleive that 
not only I am.
I use Cyrus in a hosting inviroment because it's stable, fast and feature 
rich server. Most of my (hosting) clients uses POP3 to get their mails form 
the server, almost all of them leaves the messages on the server for a 5-20 
days, about a half of them uses webamil access to read their mail from home, 
from places other than office and this is a place where we need all read 
mails marked as read.


Best,
G/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jorey Bump" <list at joreybump.com>
To: "Georgy Goshin" <gosha at inbox.ee>
Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: POP3 retvied mails should be marked as read - how?


> Georgy Goshin wrote, at 09/29/2007 06:12 AM:
>
>> I need the Cyrus POP3 server marks all messages read by client but left 
>> on server as read. How to do this?
>
> POP3 does not mark messages as read. The client downloads the messages, 
> then *it* tracks which messages are read. For obvious reasons, you don't 
> want to mark messages as read merely because they have been downloaded. 
> Tricks played with the deprecated LAST command are not reliable.
>
> The feature you want can only be done by modifying the POP3 client to use 
> IMAP to mark messages as read when messages left on the server are read by 
> the POP3 client. I doubt you'll be able to convince any developer to make 
> such a modification, since IMAP already provides this functionality.
>
> IOW, switch to IMAP.
>