[MlMt] killing any imap / mailbox state

[Pete Resnick]

On 18 Apr 2020, at 16:47, Randy Bush wrote:

>>> so a family member seems to have achieved a 'creative' state in their
>>> account; likely cause by things such as a Sent mailbox with ten years
>>> of messages.  is there a nice way to tell mailmate to clear all state
>>> for an account, wipe all caches, ...?
>> If you don't want to delete and re-add the account (which is quite
>> effective)
>
> i am quite willing to do that, iff it is effective.  i.e. MM does not
> keep a cache or two just to help me if i delete and then reinstate an
> account.

I've done it a few times and AFAICT, MM blows away the whole kit and kaboodle.

>> you can select all of the messages that are causing you heartache
>
> not when the heartache is not being able to see them in MM

Well, yeah, that might be a problem.

pr
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