Apple Mail not refreshing 'read' message statuses (GMAIL IMAP)

I have the following reproducible bug, when using three different IMAP interfaces to my GMail account: Apple Mail, iPhone Mail, GMail Web
1. Viewing a mail in Apple Mail, causes it to be marked as read in iPhone Mail and GMail Web
2. Viewing a mail in GMail Web, causes it to be marked as read in iPhone Mail, but NOT Apple Mail
3. Viewing a mail in iPhone Mail, causes it to be marked as read in GMail Web, but NOT Apple Mail
In summary, viewing GMail IMAP messages outside of Apple Mail, does not change the message status in Apple Mail.
It seems like the 'read' flag is correctly being set by all apps (or rather by the IMAP protocol on GMail's side) as the process is fine between iPhone Mail and GMail web.
I think that Apple Mail is not refreshing the 'read' flags. This is further proved by closing Apple Mail and relaunching, which causes all 'read' flags to be refreshed and show the correct statuses.
Russell.

This is a known issue. See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8728159#8728159

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