poplib.retr doens't flag message as read

[EuGeNe Van den Bulke]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> The POP protocol has no concept of "read" or "unread" messages; the LIST 
> command simply shows all existing messages. 

My mistake, I guess I was confused by the documentation

retr( which) Retrieve whole message number which, and set its seen flag. 
Result is in form (response, ['line', ...], octets).

What is the seen flag? Nothing it seems 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-July/329888.html

Thanks for your help,

EuGeNe -- http://www.3kwa.com