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Newly working with neomutt and mbsync. I did an initial grab of all my mail and folders which was fine.

Then I started organizing my folders and mail. Some of the folders (or "mailboxes") within the account were cleaned up and DELETED.

When I run mbsync -a it seems to want to find those deleted folders. The error message is as follows:

Error: channel [email protected]: far side box INBOX/subscribed cannot be opened.

The INBOX/subscribed is a folder that no longer exists under INBOX

Yet, the mbsync task is still trying to fetch it.

Is there a config file somewhere that needs updating? What can I do to fix this error?

Thank you for your help.

Edgar Magallon
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You've probably solved this by now, but for future travellers:

mbsync --remove-near will attempt to remove near-side mailboxes that are gone from the far side.

mbsync will refuse to remove near-side mailboxes which are empty and will complain with:

Warning: channel <your channel>: far side box <mailbox> cannot be opened and near side box <mailbox> is not empty.

You can manually remove (or move out of your maildir store) any near-side folders and re-run with --remove-near until everything is synced, then you can sync how you normally would.

I'm quite new to mbsync so I'm not sure which options in my mbsyncrc are relevant, but I have these set:

Patterns *
Create Both
SyncState *
Expunge Both

You might want to read up on those settings if yours differ and the above doesn't work.

James Rampton
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