Hello Oswald,

> ...as a workaround i can only suggest setting MaxMessages to the highest
> realistic number of messages you would be able to go backwards. of
> course that's not helpful if you need to work in very small increments.
> 
> alternatively, you could simply delete the slave mailbox including the
> sync state after you sync all the deletions. then mbsync would start
> listing from scratch. of course that is highly inefficient with big
> mailboxes, which is why it's not done during incremental operation.

OK. I could do this whenever I consume all the local messages to replenish
the local maildir.

> > Well, I had made one test. Running mbsync brought in 100 messages when
> > I first ran it. I opened my mail with mutt, saw a few messages and
> > closed mutt. Later I ran mbsync again and it fetched 20 messages, but
> > when I opened my mail, the original 100 messages were gone.
> >
> that doesn't sound right at all. 80 of the old messages should have
> remained.
> can you reproduce the situation from scratch? if so, i'd need a log of
> mbsync -D -V of the whole procedure to understand what has happend.
> 

I tried to reproduce it but couldn't yet; today the behavior seems
reasonable.

Nevertheless, in my attempts to reproduce this behavior I used a 'dummy'
maildir prepared with  'mu find --format=links...' (i.e., a maildir
made up of symlinks). I then ran mbsync to fetch 100 messages from
that maildir and I couldn't understand the result. I did get 100
messages, but they were not the latest nor the earliest but rather
scattered throughout the maildir.  When fetching messages from an
actual maildir (containing actual messages instead of symbolic links)
I did get the latest ones as I expected. Is there a reason why
symbolic links could confuse mbsync?

Best regards,
Luis


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