MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no  Sat Mar 11 00:50:05 2017
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:55 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] What is the current consensus on the Recent
	flag?
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Hi,

I've never seen it in real use either.

But it's simplish to implement along with MSNs. You keep a UID 
persistently, "the last UID for which some session has seen \recent". In 
the code where you assign MSNs for each session, you look at whether each 
message has UID>that, and if so, you set \recent in that session only and 
increase the threshold.

Simple to do, but worthless. Your call ;)

Arnt

