Mu 1.7.23 Causing Maildir Corruption

Posted: 2022-06-26 by Matthew Smith | Revision: 1
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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/\(\([^:]*\)\(:2,\)\{1,\}\(:2,.*$\)\)/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