2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c867468a..9724d225 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 fetchmail-4.4.4 ():
 * Francois Wautier's fix for qvirtual.
+* Willem Hengeveld's fix for UID initialization.
 
 fetchmail-4.4.3 (Sun Apr 19 18:22:00 EDT 1998):
 * Back out one of the changes to the null Return-Path handling, as it caused
diff --git a/uid.c b/uid.c
index 30ce1827..dcf90687 100644
--- a/uid.c
+++ b/uid.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ void initialize_saved_lists(struct query *hostlist, const char *idfile)
 		        strcasecmp(host, ctl->server.truename) == 0
 				&& strcasecmp(user, ctl->remotename) == 0)
 		    {
-			save_str(&ctl->oldsaved, id, UID_UNSEEN);
+			save_str(&ctl->oldsaved, id, UID_SEEN);
 			break;
 		    }
 		}