[MlMt] Re-appearing messages

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Thu Feb 23 09:36:02 EST 2017


On 23 Feb 2017, at 7:34, Jim McCarty wrote:

> The problem I keep encountering is some time after I delete messages 
> while viewing through smart mailboxes, they will sometimes reappear. 
> Most of the time they reappear with their read status reset, though 
> some remain marked as read (though I haven’t tried to figure out the 
> pattern). I have many smart mailboxes, some are setup to roughly mimic 
> Gmail’s inbox categorization others look at tags or subject 
> patterns. Some of the email is in the inbox, some in [Gmail]/Archive 
> or maybe in a Gmail "label" that hasn't been converted yet.
>
> The only way I’ve found to keep them from coming back once they’ve 
> started is to delete them and then choose to sync the entire account. 
> However, I recently discovered a whole raft of emails I had deleted 
> reappear in my smart mailbox (all living in [Gmail]/Archive) but all 
> marked as read, whereas before, most of them would reappear marked as 
> unread).
>
> I can't really tell you if it only happens on one computer but not the 
> other (I'll pay closer attention in the future), though I can tell you 
> the one I noticed this behavior on today was running v1.9.6 (5347), 
> the other is running v2.0BETA (6072). Oh, and both were probably 
> running at the same time, one at home sitting idle, the other with me 
> at work (running v1.9.6).

I guess it's likely that it is somehow related to the two running 
installs of MailMate. Do you have rules moving these emails on both 
machines? (This could result in a race-condition.)

-- 
Benny


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