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I have installed and configured mu and mu4e as explained in the manual (newest version on emacs 24.3.1). My mu4e config contains: 

(setq mu4e-maildir "~/Maildir/mail_user_de")

(setq mu4e-drafts-folder "/Drafts")
(setq mu4e-sent-folder   "/Sent")
(setq mu4e-trash-folder  "/Trash")

These folders exist and each contains three subfolders: cur, new and tmp. When I fire up mu4e it says:

[mu4e] Started mu4e with 4023 messages in store

however, when I enter the INBOX folder, there is no mail listed. On the other hand, when I enter the last 7 days bookmark, all emails from the last seven days are listed.

My assumption is, that mu4e does not care for emails which have been downloaded outside of emacs because

  1. When I update (calling offlineimap and mu index) within mu4e the email are sorted correctly into the INBOX
  2. When I update outside of emacs, the mails are listed in the bookmark but not in the INBOX until they are marked read outside of mu4e. If this happens outside of mu4e they will not show up in the INBOX, otherwise they will suddenly appear (flagged read) in the INBOX.

Obviously I don't like this. I would prefer if all mails, independent whether they were downloaded from within mu4e or directly in a terminal, show up in the INBOX. Is this a bug or a feature (which, so I hope, can be disabled)?

Cœur
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elemakil
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  • How did you solve this? The answer below does not work for me. – mart1n Aug 31 '15 at 09:01
  • The same happened to me and it was because the index had not been done properly for some reason: the parent directory was missing from the maildir, i.e. messages were indexed as in the folder `/INBOX` whereas they were in the folder `/whatever/INBOX`. Rebuilding the index with `mu index --rebuild` solved the issue. – armando.sano Jul 08 '19 at 04:52

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I ran into something similar. I suspect it's because I had mu index ~/Maildir rather than ~/Maildir/mail_user_de (using your setup as an example), but I haven't checked. Regardless, the following change worked for me:

(setq mu4e-maildir "~/Maildir")
(setq mu4e-drafts-folder "/mail_user_de/Drafts")
(setq mu4e-sent-folder   "/mail_user_de/Sent")
(setq mu4e-trash-folder  "/mail_user_de/Trash")
Brett Presnell
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  • This solution worked for me. – miguelmorin Nov 27 '18 at 15:12
  • That solution worked for me but made things complicated in other ways. I ended up rebuilding the mu index specifying the maildir location like: ~/Maildir//mail_user_de. Solved it straight away. – jdtonkin Jun 18 '19 at 00:07