Cyrus Daboo (daboo@cyrusoft.com)
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:15:38 -0500
--On Monday, December 17, 2001 4:57 PM -0500 Pete Maclean
<aaddict@maclean.com> wrote:
>> The \Recent flag should be manufactured on a MAPI server. You need
>> to remember the UID of the folder on the select verb, and check the UID
>> of the message against the UID saved in the folder, if it's greater, the
>> message is recent. The nature of the \Recent flag is that it can never
>> be preserved on the message (not if you want to get the correct
>> semantics in a multi-accessed mailbox situation).
>
> I do manufacture it but a little differently from the way you suggest.
> Since I also manufacture my own UIDs, I give a message a \Recent flag if,
> when I find it, it is marked unread and has no UID assigned.
But that won't work for a copy or append of a seen message, right?
Technically the \Recent flag should be set on those as well. I would think
that 'has no UID assigned' ought to be the only test you need to set
\Recent.
-- Cyrus Daboo
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