Outsourced Clue Blog

Mail.App had/has this extremely annoying bug where if you mark a message as Read using IMAP, it will magically become unread again. No amount of forcefully marking that message as read will fix the problem. 10.4.7 should have fixed it. It didn’t. I posted on the Apple Discussion forums criticizing Apple over this, and they deleted my post. Here it is for posterity:

Unread Messages in Mail.app Problem NOT FIXED
Posted: 27-Jun-2006 4:19 PM

So long Mail.app.

What a joke. I was actually preparing a “Why I would never switch from OSX” blog post…grrrr.

UPDATE: - I had a hunch, and I was right. It was GPGMail that is doing it. I switched to GPGMail when I got my MacBook Pro as PGP Desktop at the time wasn’t Universal. From the GPGMail FAQ:

Q: Since I installed GPGMail, some read messages have their ‘read’ status come back to ‘unread’. What’s happening?
A: It’s is a bug in GPGMail that I’ve been unable to fix yet. The only workaround that works for most people (but not all) is to disable automatic decryption/verification of emails.

Double grrrr….(on a side note, I apologize to Apple for blaming this on them )

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