MBOX-Line: From andris.reinman at gmail.com  Fri Mar 10 13:42:09 2017
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Andris Reinman <andris.reinman@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:55 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] What is the current consensus on the Recent flag?
Message-ID: <CAPacwgx6aqYdp01-CA0k_saiYmLmCFOizs3TNg4R_PJcMt0WpA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I'm building a new open source IMAP server (
https://github.com/wildduck-email/wildduck) and was wondering about the
\Recent flag. Is it even needed today? I would like to keep my server as
standards compliant as possible but the ephemeral nature of \Recent makes
it a bit difficult to sync between sessions in multiple hosts. It would be
doable but the complexity needed does not make it seem worth it.

Is there even any major client using this flag in a sane way? I don't think
I have even ever encountered it outside the RFCs.

Best regards,
Andris Reinman
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