You see, Mac mail is very stupid. Not just because Satan runs Mac. Not just because Steve Jobs sleeps with me regularly and punches my health, but really because of endless and large issues with courier-imap. My resume/professional email has no problem but my personal email box is just not happy with the iHate Mail app. It just refuses to work while Thunderbird hums along.

I have a billion messages but OSX Mail always was showing (333) in the Inbox, meaning 333 new messages, even if they are all read.

A friend’s adventure into Gentoo/IMAP made me want to get mutt (command line email) working with IMAP again. It gave me some BS error 333 times. I tried my other account, it worked. Ah! Two clients hating my account! A pattern!

I backed up my mail directory to a .tgz. Is 51MB. I searched for patterns. WTF is the difference?!

Eventually I saw 443 old files named susie.fuzzylemon.net. Hrm, not exactly the number I was looking for but close. I deleted them. They were probably after I renamed my domain and crap.
My server isn’t on that old domain name, maybe courier was trying to resolve those files.

I tried again and mutt likes it. Shows 940 messages (approx. right). I will try Mail.app tonight and posty an UPDATED: line.