Dear fellow nerds,

I recently started to use aerc, synched locally with mbsync. Unfortunately, I’m facing a rather annoying problem with Gmail:

  • I read emails (flag “seen”) and move them to the archive;
  • run the mbsync < account > command to sync;
  • the mails are correctly moved, however, they seem to lose the “seen” flag, and they revert to unread.

Am I missing something? Any idea what could be the problem? If it matters, I’m on a Wayland session on NixOS.

Thanks!

  • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 days ago

    The “seen” flag should be represented by an “S” in the filename of the mail (see Maildir spec).

    You could probably observe filename changes using:

    fsnotifywait -m $YOUR_MAILDIR -r -e move -e create -e delete

    While that is running in your terminal, move a mail using aerc, and see if aerc correctly preserves the “S” flag in the filename.

    • Luca Mancini@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      Thank you very much the info! I was looking for something like this, but eventually I failed 😆
      I’ll try as soon as I can and get back with the result!