Help with creating a Web-based Email Client like Hotmail or Yahoo 1

[mabait]

I have a question in regards to web-based emails with Coldfusion. I am looking at the Crazy Cab Email
Client example found in Coldfusion.

I want to know if there is a way to detect whether a user has already read the message?

So that if it is a new message the text will be bold, otherwise if they read it already it will just
in regular font.

Thanks in advance,
--=mabait=--

 

[LineNoize]

This can be accomplished in several ways but perhaps the easiest is to have a boolean (yes/no) field in the database called "unread". The field is set to "on" by default. When a user reads the message simply set the field to 0.

-N

 

[mabait]

Hi LineNoize,

That would be a good solution, however, the emails are not stored in a database, I'm taking it from the pop server using CFPOP just like the Crazy Cab example.

How else can I do it? I was thinking of doing it through client or session variables where I detect the emails that were read, but I can't seem to get it work.

Any suggestions, please let me know.

Thanks,
--=mabait=--

 

[LineNoize]

Ok... then how about another database table that tracks each user and which messages they've read based on the message ID?

-N