[X4U] The wonderful Mail program

[Piers Uso Walter]

On 11. Okt 2004, at 11:17, Kansas Territory wrote:

> On Oct 11, 2004, at 6:28 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>
>> For the eleventh-thirtyst time all my mails in the "In" folder are 
>> suddenly marked as unread and all mails with a flag are un-flagged.  
>> Have more of you this phenomena?
>>
>
> This has happened to me a time or two.   And I think I know why it did.
> I believe it's due to the fact that i have an IMAP account.    Mail 
> had loaded up a list of messages and showed them to be unread.
>
> I go through them, read them,   maybe delete some of them etc..
>
> then I go to do something else...  check back in my email program, and 
> there's these emails,  either still showing to be "unread" or after I 
> had deleted them, they are still there..  and I believe this is 
> because I had lost my Internet Connection.    and Mail was unable to 
> "update" my mail on the mail server.      I had to re-establish my 
> connection, then all was well.


I've had this happen quite often, and I'm using POP (not IMAP). So your 
explanation does not cover my case.


With kind regards

Piers

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