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

[jim <jim well com>]

very helpful! many thanks, chris. 
jim 



On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 14:11 +1100, Christopher M Bailey wrote:
> 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