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Re: [Extra] IMAP4rev2 , \recent and search new

Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Mon, 28 October 2019 20:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Extra] IMAP4rev2 , \recent and search new
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On Monday 28 October 2019 21:33:57 CET, Brandon Long wrote:
> Using UNSEEN seems like a different type of lie, it is closer 
> to what \Recent means... but since they both existed, one would 
> think the difference between them may be what people consider 
> useful.

I suggested (optionally) aliasing it to UNSEEN since it seemed to me that 
any client that issues SEARCH NEW would want the search resunt to sometimes 
be nonempty.

Arnt

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