MBOX-Line: From njhaveri at apple.com  Tue Mar 14 08:49:39 2017
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Neil Jhaveri <njhaveri@apple.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:55 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] What is the current consensus on the Recent
	flag?
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I agree, and we aren?t using it in iOS/macOS Mail.  We?ve thought about it several times, though? but every time, the semantics proved to not be reliable enough.

On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:42 PM, Andris Reinman <andris.reinman@gmail.com<mailto:andris.reinman@gmail.com>> wrote:

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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