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I think the \Seen flag is set automatically by the IMAP server whenever any client retrieves a message body. At least in my (automated) IMAP clients, I have resorted to programmatically remove the \Seen flag on mails that I retrieve. Looking at Mail::IMAPClient, there is mention of the Peek flag, which should let the IMAP server know that the mail should remain unread. I haven't tried this, but it could work like this:

$imap->Peek(1); # don't mark mails as \Seen automatically

my @unseen = reverse sort $imap->search_unseen;
for my $i (@unseen) {
  my $msg = join '', @{$imap->get($i)};
  unless (fork) {
    if (&process (Email::MIME->new (\$msg)) eq "notouch") {
      $imap->unsee ($i);
      exit;
    }
  }
}
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In reply to Re: IMAP: mark message as unseen by Corion
in thread IMAP: mark message as unseen by Arik123

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