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user1539634

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Mutt, how to stop mutt from changing email names

I recently switched to Mutt. Being able to backing up emails sounds cool. I use rsync to do so but I have a big headache. I use Maildir format. Each time Mutt opens an email, it changes the file name of the email, e.g. it likes to add one ",S" to the end. Then weeks later when I back up my mails, rsync is driven crazy. I guess Mutt does so because of some concurrency issues but as a personal user I do not have to worry about this. I hope to tell Mutt to keep the names of email files permanently unchanged. Question: how?

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Views: 219

Answers (1)

muttuser
muttuser

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the ,S ismaildir flag for seen ("mark as read"). that's the way maildirs work, i can't tell whether you can run mutt in read-only mode as far as that is concerned.

usually, when working with maildirs, it's a better idea to use a maildir-awaresynchronization like mbsync. it will know of those flags and synchronize more efficiently because it can rely on all involved utilities to be aware of the ways to handle maildirs (that is, don't change files in-place, how to set flags etc).

Upvotes: 1

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