Got a "can't get mailbox" error but recovered

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Just for your info: I saw a message that I thought should have been marked spam, and I trained it as spam manually. There was a hiccup where nothing happened for a second or two, and then the message was moved into the junk mailbox. The log registered the training and a predicted 99, and an error:

Summary:	You trained a message as spam in Apple Mail.
Error Code:	-1,728
Log Entry:	Error moving to spam mailbox: Mail got an error: Can’t get message id 123185 of mailbox "INBOX" of account id "2649A072-5B9F-48DE-890C-2A36142740BC".
Date Logged:	Today at 3:51:16 PM

SpamSieve:	3.2.2 at /Applications/SpamSieve.app

Well, I actually regard that as pretty good, because it suggests that we hit an error and recovered from the error (because we did move the message ultimately).

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The training doesn’t retry after logging that particular error. So, unless you see two Predicted log entries for the same message, my guess is that you trained the message while SpamSieve was still initially processing it, and the error is because the message was already in transit from the prediction when the training tried to move it.

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Yes, that’s very possible. The message had arrived just a few seconds before. But usually Spam Sieve moves spam to junk immediately upon arrival, so I thought maybe it wasn’t seeing this as spam. — However, even if this was a human-caused problem, I think the fact that SpamSieve managed to get out of it is good.

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