I’ve dealt with this issue. It’s Gmail related
With its labels, Gmail allows Inbox and INBOX labels, and consider them
different.
IMAP protocol states it’s INBOX (all caps) only.
Using Gmail with outlook results in having subfolders in INBOX having the label
Inbox.
Took me a lot of time to figure what was going on.
I ended with a custom script doing the mapping between gmail (Inbox) and the
rest of the world (INBOX), happending that to the mbsync configuration file and
then only sync’ing with mbsync
Good luck
De : Nicolas Richard [mailto:youngf...@members.fsf.org]
Envoyé : dimanche 16 juillet 2017 17:07
À : isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Objet : Inbox vs INBOX
Hi,
I've been using mbsync with mu4e, and it's been sort of working for me, but I
wanted to share one thing that caused me headache : Inbox.
When reading the doc, it was never clear to me why and how one should use the
Inbox configuration parameter. Consider a mbsyncrc with this:
MaildirStore mymailstore-Local
Inbox ~/mbimaps/mymailstore/
Path ~/mbimaps/mymailstore/
SubFolders Verbatim
with, in this case, a IMAP/Gmail Master. Then, when synchronising, I see mails
from my inbox appear under mymailstore/{cur,new}
Now one error I made, and won't do again, was to think that I could "mbsync
mymailstore:Inbox" to sync only my inbox... That does not work ! Instead it
makes a new directory mymailstore/Inbox with its own {cur,new} subdirs... with
the same content as INBOX. I guess the IMAP server tries to be smart here ?
What I can do, however, is call "mbsync mymailstore:INBOX", which correctly
updates mymailstore/{cur,new}.
In particular, it seems to be a very bad idea to set Inbox to
~/mbimaps/mymailstore/Inbox (which is what I had done at first), because that
somehow associates both INBOX and Inbox to the same Maildir
(~/mbimaps/mymailstore/Inbox) and leads to a lot of pain.
I hope my experience will avoid someone else some pain in setting up their
config files and I welcome any comment on my current setup.
FWIW I'm about to try (once again) to download a few gigabytes of emails from
my main account, crossing my fingers that nothing gets messed up this time.
Nicolas.
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