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I have been noticing this a few times over the past while but it never really took my attention. It appears that a subset of Gmail users are opening their Gmail accounts to see that there are no unread emails. This is all thanks too a nasty bug that is marking unread emails as read before anyone opens them.

A Former TechCrunch writer Ouriel Ohayon was one of the first to write about the bug on Twitter. His followers then retweeted this and a search of twitter shows many users afraid their account was hacked.

This all happened due to an update google made recently.

The author of the post also offers a quick fix:

I then relaxed and searched on Twitter and it appears others were also impacted when Google modified how it handles IMAP GET MESSAGE BODY. Even mails on my iPhone were effected by this.

Anyway, thank you to our first user who pinged us so that we could correct this in real time. And for all of you IMAP Geeks around the world, set the PEEK mode to TRUE if you get an mail’s BODY from Gmail.

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