Re: local side is greater than far side

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On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 11:12:52AM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen via isync-devel wrote:
> the zero is the UID of the far-side message, i.e. none at all, i.e., the
> near-side message got orphaned. so it is reliable, provided you have no
> legitimate reason for having such pairs (that would be the case when
> using MaxMessages; can't think of another one right now).

Thanks again. That's great.

I checked through a few individual messages then got bored, but they indeed look like they are duplicates. Oddly enough the messages were all from a contiguous block around 31 October to 7 November. At least that made them easy to delete!

For future reference, the command I used to check through my mailboxes for orphaned messages was

> find ~/.mail/ -maxdepth 3 -mindepth 3 -name .mbsyncstate -print0 | xargs -0 grep '^0 ' -l

Apart from that block of 26 messages, I also found another orphan from two years ago in another mailbox, so it's pretty rare, but has happened more than once for me.

Thanks again for all your help Oswald.