[MlMt] Rebuilding cache

[Bill Cole]

On 2026-02-27 at 08:50:03 UTC-0500 (Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:50:03 +0000)
Martin S Taylor <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> On 15 Feb 2026, at 15:27, Bill Cole wrote:
>
>> On 2026-02-15 at 09:23:51 UTC-0500 (Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:23:51 +0000)
>> Martin S Taylo <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
>> is rumored to have said:
>>
>>>> On 14 Feb 2026, at 15:16, Bill Cole 
>>>> <mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is not a fast process. It is faster than wiping everything and 
>>>> re-downloading the mail.
>>>
>>> I think I’d prefer to wipe everything and re-download, no matter 
>>> how long it takes. So many times has MailMate synchronised with the 
>>> IMAP server and deleted important emails.
>>>
>>> At the moment I know the IMAP server is intact, and I’d like to 
>>> start MailMate from a blank sheet, as it were.
[...]
>
> Thanks. All done. Most of the problems were caused by Apple’s 
> Mail.app not handling my mailboxes properly. There are many emails on 
> my IMAP server which simply don’t show up in Mail.app – they’re 
> there when I look at the Web interface, and they’re there when I 
> look using MailMate, but Mail.app just won’t acknowledge thir 
> existence. Weird.

That is usually a consequence of MailMate and webmail using a real 
"Trash" folder for staging message deletion while Apple Mail uses the 
IMAP "\Deleted" keyword, which MailMate doesn't fully support. There is 
discussion of tweaks to that in the MailMate Help in the Hidden 
Preferences section.


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