On Wednesday, 08 December 1999 at 08:47, Chris Green wrote:
> Most times when I first connect to an IMAP4 mailbox and frequently at
> other times I get the message:-
> "Mailbox was externally modified. Flags may be wrong."
>
> Now this may be right at times but it certainly seems to me that it's
> a pretty silly message to output on one's _first_ connection to an
> empty inbox!
send me a .muttdebug file? It sounds like mutt may be getting spurious
untagged EXISTS or NEW messages. I certainly never get this message.
> It also strikes me that saying that an IMAP4 mailbox has been
> "externally modified" is just telling me what IMAP4 has been designed
> for!
that message shouldn't appear unless mutt can't reconcile its idea of
the mailbox with the server's.
> How does mutt decide that a mailbox has been "externally modified"
> anyway? It works OK for local mailboxes, mutt complains if the
> mailbox has been modified by some other program while mutt is running.
> It seems to complain for no good reason when looking at IMAP4
> mailboxes.
I'd have to see a trace. A quick glance at the logic implies that mutt
will generate this message on IMAP folders if it believes new mail has
arrived but the message count isn't any greater than it was
before. The question is then, why does mutt think there's new mail in
the folder?
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