[Hardcider] Read/Unread count in Mail.app

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 9/15/06, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:
> This does not happen in Thunderbird, and I think I'm going to end up

Actually, I've seen this exact problem in Thunderbird too, but
not to the extent you describe here.  My only conjecture about
it was that it seemed to be a race condition wherein the mail
client had successfully downloaded the message but had
not yet told the IMAP server to mark the message as read.
Perhaps Mail.app is also storing that it told the server that
the message was read, but is then turning around and getting
the "read" status from the server?  That would seem to me to
be a significant bug.

> using it instead of Mail.app permanently. But it doesn't integrate with
> Address Book and iCal, and iCal won't let me respond to an invitation

There are a couple of bugs about Thunderbird integration with the
Address Book:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218145
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927

(218145 is resolved as a duplicate of 203927 but has a lot
of comments on it.)  I don't know of any bugs about iCal
integration and, in fact, have never actually used that feature
of iCal (probably because I don't use Mail.app).

Please go vote for bug 203927, though, since there is a working
patch for at least read access!

> I'm willing to go to Cyrus if I have to, but the mbox to Maildir
> transistion was scary enough and I'd rather not if it can be avoided.

Actually, that's a fairly easy transition as long as you can do it
by IMAP.  I've done it twice now (once for my own, very large,
mailboxes and once for TriLUG) and other than just taking a while
it was very straightforward.

Cheers,
Tanner

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