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Unread messages should be in the new subdirectory of Maildir, and read messages in cur. Not sure about using those modules, but that's how Maildir works. See http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html.
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Re^2: finding unread emails in IMAP maildir
by iguanodon (Priest) on Aug 09, 2005 at 01:21 UTC
    Unread messages should be in the new subdirectory of Maildir, and read messages in cur. Not sure about using those modules, but that's how Maildir works. See http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html.
    That's basically correct but... at least with my Postfix / Courier IMAP / Squirrelmail setup, as soon as I use Squirrelmail any messages in the new dir are moved to cur - even if they're not read yet. When the message is read, :2,S is appended to the file name in cur. This is best explained at http://www.courier-mta.org/?maildir.html . Other MTA/IMAP server/MUA combinations may handle this differently.

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Re^2: finding unread emails in IMAP maildir
by chrisj0 (Acolyte) on Aug 08, 2005 at 20:07 UTC
    Yes I know,
    I've tried giving Email::Folder just a subdirectory of the Maildir, but it errors out saying it's not a maildir.
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      Ah. A clever hack might be to create a fake Maildir with a symlink to cur and an empty new and tmp to get the read messages, and a symlink to new and an empty cur and tmp to get the unread messages.

      But maybe the best solution is to modify Email::Folder::Maildir to include this information, perhaps by prepending a fake header saying where the message came from.

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