My phone is always checking gmail, sometimes chrome on my home computer, and sometimes chrome on the same computer (work) where I have mutt, but it was all working fine before. I'm curious why it suddenly started happening even though I had about a month without this error.
To be clear, I get this error when I have only been using Mutt. So maybe it has to do with gmail sorting email into various tabs? (updates, social, inbox, etc) Gmail won't have deleted anything. And what happens is Mutt ends up giving me this error and then I can't receive any new mail without quitting and restarting it. Is there any way to tell mutt to "check again"? On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 10:51 AM Hokan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:18:10AM -0400, Ben Gold wrote: > > Mutt was working for me (to check my gmail account) for about a > > month.Ā Now it seems like whenever I get an email, instead of showing > > an unread message I just get this error: > > "mailbox externally modified. flags may be wrong" > > I haven't changed anything (that I'm aware of) in mutt or in my email > > habits. > > What does this error mean? > > When it happens to me it's because I've been using another MUA at the > same time I'm using mutt -- the Gmail web interface, for example. > > -- > Hokan > Bicyclist > Sysadmin >
