Re: Syncing and mutt "Mailbox is unchanged" issue

[Evgeniy B. <bi...@pr...>]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 02:55:57AM +0000, Gammel Holte wrote:
> If one of the messages in my local inbox is marked as deleted by syncing
> with the remote server (getting the tag D in mutt), I cannot make it
> disappear using the sync-mailbox command ($). Attempts to do so lead to a
> "Mailbox is unchanged" message.

 Probably Mutt checks for modification time of mailbox and compares it
 with time of last user's delete command. If so, this situation may be
 considered as Mutt's bug.

 Try this workarond: start edition of any deleted message with "e", make
 some changes (to create new version of message), exit editor, mark new
 message as deleted (d) and resync ($). If it works, try to make keyboard
 binding to some external command, which updates time stamps on mailbox
 folder (via "touch", eg). It could give a hint to Mutt that mailbox was
 changed.
-- 
 Eugene Berdnikov