Re: occasional "Warning: lost track of 460840 pulled message(s)"

[Oswald B. <osw...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 04:48:25PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>On 9/8/21 10:15 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> the notable thing here is that you have *a lot* more messages on the
>> client than there are on the server. given your symmetrical
>> configuration, mbsync should try to upload them all in the next run, and
>> if it loses track again, it would keep ballooning up.
>
>I don't know what these numbers mean.

>Is the goal of the symmetrical sync that the numbers for slave and master match?
>
yes.
though i checked again, and your configuration doesn't specify
expunging, so trashed/deleted messages are piling up. the question would
still be still why the server has so many less. it might be doing some
auto-expunging.

>The first number is the absolute number of mails

>and the second?
>
the ones that arrived since the last mailbox view (however defined, imap isn't
very clear on the exact meaning, esp. for offline operation).

>> to get meaningful logs, you should create a tiny (~5 messages) mailbox
>> for testing and record how the situation develops over, say, three runs
>> with only that box.
>
>I have a few smaller mailboxes, too, e.g.:
>
>	...
>
>i.e. the numbers don't change.
>
yes, that box doesn't seem problematic judging by this.

> [...]
>
>Does this give a clue what could be the problem?
>
nope. we'd need an actual debug log of such an excessively slow sync
run. or even multiple runs to see how it develops.