No Read/Unread Mark for Pop3

Millions of people might know this, but this is new to me. I always wonder why my EzPop mail checker always report the total mail in my mail box instead of reports only “unread” mail. Further investigate of the reason I realise the pop3 protocol do not support “read” / “unread” message status at all. All the “read” / “unread” message status that we seen on our mail client was a client side tracking, the server certainly do not have such state. so I guess EzPop did not implement such client side tracking…

so… know any pop3 mail checker that are up to the task? I want only it to report “unread” mail…

Comments

  1. Peter says:

    I think the best you can hope for, would be a pop3 mail checker that can report on ‘new’ messages since a given date/time.

  2. merc says:

    hm… good idea! Thanks!

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