[MlMt] Re-appearing messages

[Jim McCarty]

On 23 Feb 2017, at 6:36, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> 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.)

There are probably some rules that move messages running on both 
machines, I'll check into that. However, none of the rules move a 
message out of Deleted Message back to the inbox.

Thanks for the ideas... I'll report back after I've had a bit of time to 
evaluate changes to my rules.

Jim

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