[MlMt] Missing messages from gmail server

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 3 Mar 2016, at 7:30, Harvey Leff wrote:

> I have a gmail account for which some messages seemed to disappear 
> from MailMate; i.e., when I searched for them, they were no longer 
> there.
>
> However, when I logged into gmail via the web, the messages DID show 
> on the gmail server. So I then used the Rebuild Database Terminal 
> command
>
> 	rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/MailMate/*.tmp printf "OldDatabase" 
> > ~/Library/Application\ Support/MailMate/.rebuild.tmp
>
> to re-sync the entire database. After the rebuild, the  messages that 
> were missing initially STILL were not in MailMate.

Just a general off topic remark here for the mailing list: I would 
prefer that users do *not* rebuild the database manually. It'll most 
often not make a difference and if it does make a difference then I can 
no longer debug the issue.

> Some numbers for comparison:
>
> Gmail server:
> 	All Mail 91411
> 	Sent 3899
> MailMate:
> 	All Messages 8210
> 	Sent Messages 4854
>
> Any ideas on why such (large) differences should exist and how this 
> can be rectified?

By default, MailMate does *not* synchronize the “[Gmail]/All Mail” 
mailbox. Some users prefer this and it's better to let it be opt-in than 
opt-out (at least for now). It's also a tricky mailbox to synchronize 
since it's at the center of everything non-standard about Gmail. 
Resource on the subject 
[here](https://manual.mailmate-app.com/account_setup#gmail) and 
[here](https://blog.freron.com/2013/mavericks-gmail-apple-mail-and-mailmate/).

MailMate should be able to handle it quite well now, but I don't make 
any guarantees. Gimap (Gmail IMAP) is non-standard and undocumented and 
a potentially moving target.

You can enable the “[Gmail]/All Mail” mailbox via “Edit 
Subscriptions” in the IMAP Account editor in MailMate (see the File 
menu). Don't enable any of the other mailboxes disabled by default.

Since you have a somewhat large Gmail account then it might take a long 
time to synchronize. You might even have your connections throttled by 
Google.

Now, there should not be a difference in sent messages. We should 
probably look into that. First make sure that you are not counting 
threads instead of messages in the Gmail web interface (which I think it 
does by default).

-- 
Benny
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