On Aug 23, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote:
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* ^From: .*youraddress
| formail -I"Status: RO"
PS. This question has been asked many times before, and answers to
this and other FAQs can be found in the procmail archives
Ah yes. I had forgotten that I had tried that some time ago, and it
did not work (which I absolutely should have mentioned, but, as I
say, I had forgotten that part).
The header line is added, but it does not effect the (UN)READ status
of the message. I presume because of the IMAP method of sorting
which sends the messages into several different folders.
To investigate further, I logged into the server via ssh and found an
unread message:
FILENAME: MESSAGE-ID:
1124819342.26693_1.straw:2,
b7e39189ab80927c2ef2f581a95a971d(_at_)appnel(_dot_)com
I made a copy of the file for comparison purposes:
cp 1124819342.26693_1.straw:2, ~/unread-
b7e39189ab80927c2ef2f581a95a971d(_at_)appnel(_dot_)com
I then went and read the message in my mail program, and the
FILENAME changed:
FILENAME: MESSAGE-ID:
1124819342.26693_1.straw:2,S
b7e39189ab80927c2ef2f581a95a971d(_at_)appnel(_dot_)com
OK, so the filename changed, did anything else? I ran 'md5sum'
on the new filename and compared it to the original:
034e634906bdb4ef5f9eb54b4b0acbb7 1124819342.26693_1.straw:2,S
034e634906bdb4ef5f9eb54b4b0acbb7 /home/tjlists/unread-
b7e39189ab80927c2ef2f581a95a971d(_at_)appnel(_dot_)com
So the files are identical. It's the fileNAME which changes.
It appears that sticking the "S" on the end is the key. So I ran this
command:
ls -1|grep -v ",S$"
(to show me all the files EXCEPT the ones that end in ",S")
which returned this:
1124120528.M698382P13078V000000000000000DI00565E4F_59.spork,S=4714:2,RS
1124818052.23308_1.straw:2,
1124818662.24791_1.straw:2,
1124819342.26669_1.straw:2,
There were 3 unread messages in that folder, which I presume are the
last 3 of those 4 files. The first one (the longest filename) is a
message that I had replied to (I presume the extra information is
used by Courier IMAP to connect it to the reply I sent).
To test *this* theory, I renamed all of the files (one at a time),
simply adding an "S" at the end of the filename, and the messages
were marked as read.
Now the question is: how do I use procmail to append an "S" onto an
unknown filename?
As a reminder, the messages are filtered like this:
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*^Sender: procmail-bounces(_at_)lists\(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen\(_dot_)DE
$MAILDIR/.INBOX.Procmail/
which then automagically sorts the message. I am not sure where the
'new' and 'tmp' folders come into play, but I presume they are used
during the delivery process, because I see this in the .procmail.log:
From procmail-bounces(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE Tue Aug 23
09:30:25 2005
Subject: IMAP filtering, how to mark my own messages read
Folder: /home/me/Maildir//.INBOX.Procmail/new/
1124814625.14754_ 5342
Thanks for any pointers!
TjL
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