Mail cannot be found after being moved from Inbox to another folder
Reported by Phu Nguyen Anh | October 9th, 2011 @ 12:32 PM
Hi,
I sometimes got a problem that email cannot be found after being
moved, no crash or error occurred though. I tried to quite and
start MailMate again but no help. I see there's a option to
"synchronize" a folder but it cann't help either. I check the
server side (via web interface) and I can see that email is there
in new folder so the movement was done correctly. It seems to be a
bug?
Also, I'm not sure what "synchronize" do but I think some kind of
"re-synchronize/re-index" may be better in case I absolutely want
to re-fetch all the message for that folder from server, that may
help me in this situation.
PS: I use MaileMate and Outlook 2011 at the same time. Outlook doesnot see that email after moved by MailMate either, but after I restart it, it shows that email in new folder.
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benny October 9th, 2011 @ 01:46 PM
- Assigned user set to benny
Ok, I'm going to ask various questions. I don't have any specific ideas yet, so this is just an attempt to get some hints.
Was the move(s) done using MailMate?
Are both source and destination mailbox online (no grey mailbox state with 'offline' in parenthesis)?
What are the names of the source and destination mailboxes?
What is the server address (you can use private email if you do not want to state it here)?
Do you still have a mailbox with missing messages?
Can you reproduce the problem?
Outlook restart: That is to be expected. Most email clients only check for new messages every x minutes except for the INBOX which is typically monitored using a so-called IDLE state. This is also true for MailMate.
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Phu Nguyen Anh October 9th, 2011 @ 02:10 PM
Hi,
- Was the move(s) done using MailMate?
-> Yes - Are both source and destination mailbox online (no grey mailbox
state with 'offline' in parenthesis)?
-> Yes - What are the names of the source and destination mailboxes?
-> Source is 'Inbox', destination mailbox is my customer's name so sorry I cann't list it here. I remember that I have this problem with that destination mailbox twice. - What is server address?
-> Will answer via email. BTW, how can I answer via private email? - Do you still have a mailbox with missing messages?
-> No - Can you reproduce the problem?
-> No, it sometimes occurs.
About Outlook restart: usually restart is a solution but it seems that restarting doesnot cure this for MailMate. I know that email client usually have a seperate database for indexing/searching and we sometimes need to reindex it after a crash or so to make it work correctly, that's why I ask for a kind of re-index/re-synchronize feature. How do you think about it?
- Was the move(s) done using MailMate?
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benny October 9th, 2011 @ 08:01 PM
Ok, 3. may indicate that the problem is somehow related to the mailbox
name. There is a “Help ▸ Send Feedback...” menu item within
MailMate you can use.With regard to 5., does this mean that the messages eventually appear in
the mailbox in MailMate?The next version of MailMate is likely to include a feature for
rebuilding the database, but this is intended for database corruption
issues which can, e.g., arise when restoring MailMate files from a
backup. The problem described in this ticket indicates a bug in
MailMate. I would prefer fixing the bug rather than require users to
re-index anything. That said, “resetting” a mailbox could be useful
in other scenarios, so I've made a note of that. -
benny October 12th, 2011 @ 01:55 PM
- State changed from new to duplicate
This is most likely a duplicate of ticket #183.
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