Re: finding unread emails in IMAP maildir

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Re^2: finding unread emails in IMAP maildir by iguanodon (Priest) on Aug 09, 2005 at 01:21 UTC
Unread messages should be in the `new` subdirectory of `Maildir`, and read messages in `cur`. Not sure about using those modules, but that's how Maildir works. See http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html. That's basically correct but... at least with my Postfix / Courier IMAP / Squirrelmail setup, as soon as I use Squirrelmail any messages in the `new` dir are moved to `cur` - even if they're not read yet. When the message is read, `:2,S` is appended to the file name in `cur`. This is best explained at http://www.courier-mta.org/?maildir.html . Other MTA/IMAP server/MUA combinations may handle this differently.	[reply]
Re^2: finding unread emails in IMAP maildir by chrisj0 (Acolyte) on Aug 08, 2005 at 20:07 UTC
Yes I know, I've tried giving Email::Folder just a subdirectory of the Maildir, but it errors out saying it's not a maildir.	[reply]
Re^3: finding unread emails in IMAP maildir by sgifford (Prior) on Aug 08, 2005 at 20:15 UTC
Ah. A clever hack might be to create a fake `Maildir` with a symlink to `cur` and an empty `new` and `tmp` to get the read messages, and a symlink to `new` and an empty `cur` and `tmp` to get the unread messages. But maybe the best solution is to modify Email::Folder::Maildir to include this information, perhaps by prepending a fake header saying where the message came from.	[reply]