Mu 1.7.23 Causing Maildir Corruption - 26/06/2022 00:00 GMT
Development versions of mu between 1.7.18 and 1.7.25 (only 1.7.23 was ever packaged in Gentoo) have a bug causing mail file names to sometimes get mangled after moving messages between directories. Symptoms include unread messages never being marked as read. Affected messages have the ':2,' flag appended multiple times. Using the following commands, users can remove the extra flags. find ~/Maildir -name '*:2,*:*' | sed "s/\(\([^:]*\)\(:2,\)\\(:2,.*$\)\)/mv '\0' '\2\4'/" \ > rename.sh # review rename.sh. empty file indicates that you are unaffected sh rename.sh Upstream issue: https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2268
Posted By: Matthew Smith