diff --git a/src/engine/imap-db/imap-db-database.vala b/src/engine/imap-db/imap-db-database.vala
index d44a8f97..8bb0ca66 100644
--- a/src/engine/imap-db/imap-db-database.vala
+++ b/src/engine/imap-db/imap-db-database.vala
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ private class Geary.ImapDB.Database : Geary.Db.VersionedDatabase {
         cx.set_busy_timeout_msec(Db.Connection.RECOMMENDED_BUSY_TIMEOUT_MSEC);
         cx.set_foreign_keys(true);
         cx.set_recursive_triggers(true);
-        cx.set_synchronous(Db.SynchronousMode.OFF);
+        cx.set_synchronous(Db.SynchronousMode.NORMAL);
         sqlite3_unicodesn_register_tokenizer(cx.db);
     }
 }