Mutt losing folders with new mails

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 08:07:04AM +0100, Sebastian Stein wrote:
>Felix Finch <felix at crowfix.com> [200107 08:03]:
>> Might I suggest you actually count how many files in those new 
>> Maildir/new dirs, just to make sure they actually are in the new dirs 
>> and haven't moved to cur or something?
>
>I have done that. When the counter is reset to 0, I usually do
>
>ls -lt ~/Mail | head

That's not likely to be meaningful for Maildir, where the new message 
files will be in a subdirectory "new" for each folder.

What happens if you exit and restart Mutt?  Does Mutt suddenly become 
aware of the new mails again?

As Felix suggests, have you tried peeking inside the "new" subdirectory 
of a maildir that should have new mail?  What do the messsage filenames 
look like?  Do they have any flags such as 'T' (trashed) or 'S' (seen) 
at the end?  If so, are there any external programs that might be 
monitoring and manipulating the maildirs?

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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