Problems with public folders

[Misu Moldovan <dumol home ro>]

Hi all,

I've been using Balsa at home for a long time with great satisfactions,  
but I would like to use it at work too for all mail-related tasks  
because I think it is the most elegant MUA in the free software world.  
However, I have some issues with Balsa 2.2.6 (as packaged in Debian  
Sid), the most annoying being that Balsa doesn't mark as read the  
messages that I've already opened in a public folder on an IMAP server  
(Courier 2.0.8).
I don't know how Mozilla/Thunderbird mark them as read, although the  
folders are read-only. But currently I'm keeping both Balsa and  
Thunderbird opened all the time and I use Balsa for regular mails and  
Thunderbird for reading mail in public folders. And somehow the  
messages that show up as read in Thunderbird show up as read in Balsa  
too, although there are some synchronization issues (which are  
sometimes solved by changing the previewed messages in Balsa and some  
other times by closing/reopening the public folder in Balsa).
However, I cannot currently figure out how to configure Balsa to behave  
properly in regards to public folders. I've tried the options in the  
"Advanced" tab of the properties of the IMAP folder, namely "Enable  
persistent cache" and "Enable bug workarounds" but it seems they have  
other uses...
Thanks for an awesome mailer,

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