"mailbox externally modified. flags may be wrong"

[Hokan]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:18:10AM -0400, Ben Gold wrote:
>    Mutt was working for me (to check my gmail account) for about a
>    month.  Now it seems like whenever I get an email, instead of showing
>    an unread message I just get this error:
>    "mailbox externally modified. flags may be wrong"
>    I haven't changed anything (that I'm aware of) in mutt or in my email
>    habits.
>    What does this error mean?

When it happens to me it's because I've been using another MUA at the
same time I'm using mutt -- the Gmail web interface, for example.

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