Charl P. Botha over at Vxlabs has a lot of very helpful things to say about configuring mu4e and mbsync. I’ve certainly learned a lot from him when I was attempting to get mu4e up and running.
Now, he’s got another tip for mbsync users that can be useful under certain circumstances. It has to do with making sure that mbsync maintains the correct arrival date of emails. The problem manifests only for emails that stay in the inbox for an extended time before being sent to their final destination in the mail folder.
This doesn’t effect my workflow because
- I maintain a zero inbox policy as recommended by Ben Maughan so my emails never have a chance to age. They’re all dispatched to their final resting place within a day.
- Unlike Botha, I rarely if ever search for emails by their date.
Still, the tip involves adding a single item to .mbsync so I added it anyway because it’s worthwhile keeping the metadata attached to emails you’ve saved as accurate as possible.
Take a look at Botha’s post for the details. As he says, there’s no apparent reason not to enable the option. I enabled it a few days ago and haven’t had any problems.