<p>From what I understand the client issued a FETCH FLAGS command to get a listing of all messages in the Inbox, and this is part of the reply. There appears to be no request to download message headers or body in this log extract, though.</p><p>Do you get the same result with another email client than Outlook Express?</p><p> /Rolf  </p>

<p>Hi, I have a strange problem with Outlook Express and Mercury/32 4.51 IMAP server.</p><p>Whenever outlook checks for new messages the message counter says it has downloaded 7 new messages and the unread message counter (next to inbox) shows 7 for a second or two and then disappears. I never recieve the 7 messages and don't know what they are.</p><p>  I have enabled session logging in MercuryI and have the following extract</p><p>18:17:05.734: << )<cr><lf> 18:17:05.734: << * 1178 FETCH (UID 3216 FLAGS (\Seen) 18:17:05.734: << )<cr><lf> 18:17:05.734: << * 1179 FETCH (UID 3314 FLAGS () 18:17:05.734: << )<cr><lf> 18:17:05.734: << * 1180 FETCH (UID 3486 FLAGS (\Seen) 18:17:05.734: << )<cr><lf> 18:17:05.734: << * 1181 FETCH (UID 3519 FLAGS (\Seen) 18:17:05.734: << )<cr><lf> 18:17:05.734: << * 1182 FETCH (UID 3631 FLAGS () 18:17:05.734: << )<cr><lf> 18:17:05.734: << * 1183 FETCH (UID 3658 FLAGS () 18:17:05.734: << )<cr><lf> 18:17:05.734: << * 1184 FETCH (UID 3659 FLAGS (\Seen) 18:17:05.750: << )<cr><lf> 18:17:05.750: << * 1185 FETCH (UID 3757 FLAGS (\Seen) 18:17:05.750: << )<cr><lf> 18:17:05.750: << * 1186 FETCH (UID 3843 FLAGS (\Seen \Answered)</p><p> </p><p>I'm assuming that the messages with a flag of () are the unread messages as there are 7 in total in the log file.</p><p>How do I get to read them?</p><p> </p>