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Wendell III

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Since: Apr 16, 2007
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:30 am
Post subject: Mail keeps "forgetting" that messages are Read
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Hi all,

Is anyone having this bug in Mail.app on the latest 10.4...?

Basically I can read a message, and then if I go away from the mailbox
(POP3, by the way) and come back to it, the message will often be
UNREAD again. This also happens upon quit / reload of the app.

I can make them "stick" to Read if I manually flag them unread and then
flag them as Read again, but otherwise...

This is a real pain in the ass. I've tried rebuilding the mailboxes to
no avail.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-Wendell
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Dave Balderstone

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:30 am
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In article <2007090700300116807-wendelliii@gmailcom>, Wendell III
<wendell.iii RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone having this bug in Mail.app on the latest 10.4...?
>
> Basically I can read a message, and then if I go away from the mailbox
> (POP3, by the way) and come back to it, the message will often be
> UNREAD again. This also happens upon quit / reload of the app.
>
> I can make them "stick" to Read if I manually flag them unread and then
> flag them as Read again, but otherwise...
>
> This is a real pain in the ass. I've tried rebuilding the mailboxes to
> no avail.
>
> Any suggestions?

I'm not seeing it, on six different POP accounts.

The only time I see inaccurate read/unread status is if Mail crashes or
I have to force quit Mail. But that's only an inaccurate account at the
mail folder level, not actual messages being marked incorrectly.

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Michelle Steiner

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Since: Jul 15, 2003
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:58 am
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Wes Groleau1

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:35 am
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I have two identical Macs (identical except for the IP addresses,
hostnames, and ethernet addresses, that is).

I keep them identical by using rsync. So whatever I change on
one Mac is duplicated on the other. And yet, when I log in
to a Mac other than the one on which I last read (and deleted)
e-mail, that Mac says "Oh, this mail hasn't been read" and
downloads it again. It must be storing some of it's housekeeping
data in the By-Host directory.

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Cosmik de Bris

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Since: Nov 05, 2007
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:09 am
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Wendell III wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone having this bug in Mail.app on the latest 10.4...?
>
> Basically I can read a message, and then if I go away from the mailbox
> (POP3, by the way) and come back to it, the message will often be UNREAD
> again. This also happens upon quit / reload of the app.
>
> I can make them "stick" to Read if I manually flag them unread and then
> flag them as Read again, but otherwise...
>
> This is a real pain in the ass. I've tried rebuilding the mailboxes to
> no avail.
>
> Any suggestions?

I have this problem, it turned out to be the PGP (GPC ???) software I
had installed in Mail as a plugin.

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Jeffrey Goldberg

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Since: May 14, 2004
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:01 pm
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Cosmik de Bris wrote:

>> Is anyone having this bug in Mail.app on the latest 10.4...?
>>
>> Basically I can read a message, and then if I go away from the mailbox
>> (POP3, by the way) and come back to it, the message will often be UNREAD
>> again. This also happens upon quit / reload of the app.

> I have this problem, it turned out to be the PGP (GPC ???) software I had
> installed in Mail as a plugin.

I have this problem using IMAP folders. And I am also running a GPG
plugin.

-j

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