Offlineimap erroneously deletes 10,000 emails

[Johannes Stezenbach]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:09:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach seanh <snhmnd at gmail.com> [2011.05.19.1944 +0200]:
> > Definitely not. Lavabit doesn't do that, and the emails are still now in
> > the folder on the lavabit IMAP server.
> 
> Then their UIDs changed for whatever reason. Make a backup and find
> out whether offlineimap redownloads the messages after deleting
> them.

I wouldn't do that, it can create a mess if the old and new UID ranges overlap.
It's better to move the old local mails out of the way and sync
a fresh copy from IMAP.