Re: lost track of X messages / socket error

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

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:15:51AM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:
>I've been using mbsync for some time now, and every year or so I'm 
>faced with messages like:
>
>Warning: lost track of 104 pulled message(s)
>Warning: lost track of 1 pushed message(s)
>
>Searching the internet, lots of other people have enountered this, and as far
>as I can see, the general advice is "don't worry about it".
>
mostly.

>Problem is, the message doesn't go away when you re-run mbsync.
>
that's worrisome.
re-run with -D.

>Changing the pipeline depth from 4 to 1, it becomes:
>```
>far side: 41156 messages, 0 recent
>Warning: lost track of 1 pushed message(s)
>Synchronizing...
>>>> 8 APPEND "INBOX" (\Seen) {29056725}
>+ go ahead
>Socket error on imap.gmail.com (64.233.184.108:993): timeout.
>```
>
that's weird - this was supposed to be fixed since v1.3.2.
running

   mbsync -DN gmail 2>&1 | ts

should reveal roughly what is going wrong (`ts` is in `moreutils` on 
debian; i suppose *bsd has something similar).