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.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "24 October 2007" "SP" ""
+.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "02 November 2007" "SP" ""
.SH NAME
archivemail \- archive and compress your old email
@@ -256,6 +256,14 @@ will use the last-modified file timestamp on \fBMH\fR and
.PP
\fBarchivemail\fR will refuse to operate on mailboxes that are symbolic
links or create tempfiles or archives in world-writable directories.
+.SS "IMAP"
+.PP
+When \fBarchivemail\fR processes an \fBIMAP\fR folder, all messages
+in that folder will have their \\Recent flag unset, and they will
+probably not show up as 'new' in your user agent later on.
+There is no way around this, it's just how \fBIMAP\fR works.
+This does not apply, however, if you run \fBarchivemail\fR with the options
+\fB--dry-run\fR or \fB--copy\fR\&.
.SS "IMAP URLS"
.PP
\fBarchivemail\fR\&'s \fBIMAP\fR URL parser was written