Re: [Evolution] Duplicate Emails

[Panos Platon Tsapralis <ptsapralis tellas gr>]

Hi John,

this issue has been recently discussed in this mailing list. The reason
is that Evolution applies a different approach in handling messages in
the POP3 server: it first downloads all messages in a batch from the
POP3 mailbox and subsequently deletes them from the server, instead of
deleting each individual message right after downloading it into the
local folder.

I can't see of any way to reconfigure this behavior on the user level (I
think that Ximian developers should apply the alternative approach in
some future version or allow the user to select his/her preference),
neither do I know of any way to eliminate duplicate messages. I can only
say that you can limit the amount of duplicates by decreasing (or even
zeroing) the time interval of keeping your messages in the server.

Regards,

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 23:14, John Paul Walters wrote:
> Occasionally I find that Evolution will hang when trying to download email from one of my POP mail 
> accounts.  This usually results in my having to kill and restart Evolution.  Unfortunately this often 
> results in Evolution re-downloading my entire POP mailbox rather than just downloading those messages that 
> haven't been retrieved.  I keep my messages on the POP server for awhile, so when this happens Evolution 
> will often re-download 2000 messages or more(however many happen to be in the mailbox at the time)..  Is 
> there a way to prevent this from happening?  Short of that, is there a way to prune my mail folders from 
> within Evolution to remove duplicate (or triplicate) mails?
>
> Thanks,
> JP
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