[MlMt] Mailmate not removing deleted messages from inbox (but is, locally)

[Jason Davies]

Thanks for the suggestion Steve. In fact Benny has answered on the 
tracker and said to look for any offline mailboxes within the account 
and, sure enough, Deleted as well as Sent had sneaked offline. Now they 
are back to syncing, things are moving out as expected.

Cheers,
J

On 5 May 2022, at 19:35, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On 5 May 2022, at 10:27, Jason Davies wrote:
>
>>
>>>>
>>> Possible that your other device was updated in the interim?
>>
>> 'fraid not. I left it overnight. I also remembered (immediately after 
>> posting, of course) that I I - unusually - have my work laptop with 
>> me, also running MM. On the laptop, the expected behaviour is 
>> happening: I delete a message, pick up my phone, watch it disappear, 
>> then do it in reverse - delete on the phone, watch it vanish from MM 
>> on laptop. In other words all devices except Mac Mini are swiftly 
>> synchronising changes which only receives changes but appears not to 
>> 'send' them.
>>
>> So there is clearly something not right on the Mac Mini set up - I'll 
>> email Benny.
>>
>
> I saw something like this a few years ago with my iMac. It had to do 
> with the "app nap" feature, but that's gone, and MailMate worked for 
> me properly after that. But there was a work-around you can try for a 
> few folders: right-click on the folder and select "Synchronization 
> Type|Connected". There's a limit, though, to how many folders you can 
> set like that. (Caveat: this was my experience from several years ago, 
> many versions of MacOS and MailMate in the past. I have no idea if 
> this will still help, but if it does, it might be a clue to the 
> underlying problem.)
>
>
>         —Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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Cheers,

Jason
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