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Christopher D. Reimer <creimer@rahul.net> wrote:

> I just recently started getting into the habit at work of
> telnetting into rahul.net to read my personal email using pine.
> I noticed that a lot of my read email on the server is considered
> "unread" by Outlook Express.  I tried looking for a setting in
> Outlook Express that would accept the read email as "read" -- a
> feature that I previously had with Eudora in my Win95 days --

I don't know the answer to your question, but you may want
to check to make sure the read mail in question is actually
designated with "Status: R0" in the system mailbox.  It could
be some of these mail clients keep their own notion of what
mails have been read, that may diverge from what the system
(or the other mail clients) might think.

Personally, I've never agreed with the practice of leaving
"R0" mail in the system mailbox as a routine thing.  I only do
it if I suddenly find myself with less time to read/save email
than I thought I had, and want to exit the mail client 
quickly, then I might leave it in the system mailbox very
temporarily.  Usually (if anyone asks my advice) I will say
that the system mailbox should be routinely emptied when
mail is read.

Steve