Re: [Evolution] evolution presents three copies of one email message

[Christopher M Bailey <Chris ChrisBailey au com>]

On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 18:10 -0800, jim wrote:
> on an ubuntu 9.04 system, i set evolution to work 
> with three different pop email accounts and one imap 
> account. 
>    it worked fine for two or three months. it recently 
> presented three messages for one email message. the 
> inbox file showed three messages, each identical with 
> the exception of the last two lines, which indicate 
> that evolution seems to have copied the message on 
> behalf of each of the three accounts. 
>    a couple of days ago, it went back to single 
> messages, then yesterday back to triplicates, then 
> this morning to singles. 
>    what to do? 
> hopefully, with thanks, 
> jim in san francisco 
Hi Jim,

Had a similar problem with a Fedora box a little while back, turned out
to be a problem with the ISP's mail server not deleting POP3 mail
properly :-(

I could get round it by installing evolution-remove-duplicates from the
Fedora yum repo, might be worth seeing if a Ubuntu binary exists, or
download the source and compile.

Cheers,
Chris