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Hi i am reading mail using java mail and marking all the read mails as SEEN

but next time when i print the total unread mails it's giving me wrong count. seems like SEEN flag is not working as i was expecting.

am i missing something ?

Bellow is my code to read mails



 
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From this excellent JavaMail tutorial:

Just because a flag exists doesn't mean the flag is supported by all mail servers/providers. For instance, besides deleting messages, the POP protocol supports none of them. ... To find out what flags are supported, ask the folder with getPermanentFlags().

 
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okay, but then how do i distinguish new Mails from the list of thousand mails ?
 
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If you're using POP3 then you need to do that in your client code.
 
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Can you please give me some hint. i m clueless.
 
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The client needs to keep track of which messages have been looked at, possibly by making a note of their subject, sender and time, or some other uniquely identifying characteristic (look through the message headers - there may be a message ID or something similar that you can use). This needs to be stored on the client somewhere, so that it is available next time the client is run.
 
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ok.

Thanks ulf,
 
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