Multiple Copies of Emails

Hi again -- sorry to not get back sooner, but had some family urgencies.

Double-click on your hard drive's Icon to open a Finder window -- click on the Icon of a House in that Finder window to get your User Directory (Home). Once there click on Library, and then find and open the Mail folder within this Library. Are you still unable to find a file named MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3?

Ernie

Ernie,

I am unable to find that file in that directory. Nor does it show up when I do a search in Finder for that file name.

Since you have POP accounts, this is a major issue, and without that file nothing would prevent Mail from continuing to download all messages on the server!

What was the first version of OSX you were using when you established these accounts? In the Mail folder, please report all the files found at its root level? In the POP account folders, is there any file with MessageUids in it name?

I think you will need to purge the com.apple.mail.plist file, and once again setup your email accounts, but we should not this until we consider everything in the Mail folder itself.

Ernie

So after a week of flawless e-mail operation, suddenly out of the blue, I find 403 e-mails downloaded from my server today – everything back to September 22, the last date the server was purged of previously downloaded messages (I purge after an e-mail is one week old so it is available online if I need it).

Why would mail work perfectly for over a week then inexplicably fail massively again?

First it was every day, then every few days, now once a week? What is going on here?

I am having a similar issue but cannot find the file "MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3" anywhere. The message was one that was too large to send. Before I coud delete the offline cache but SL took that away. What do I do?

I did this and the problem stopped for a few days but then it returned. So this is a workaround not a fix.

Did it work?

Still having this mail duplicates issue. It's driving me nuts. Hoping for an apple mail update everyday, but it doesn't come.

Also want to note that within the last few days, mail's lost it's memory as far as remembering previous email addresses as you type them up in the to: field. It's having to start from scratch to remember them all again.

Any ideas on that? Anyone else having that issue that is having this issue as well?

Man I sure am glad I upgraded to Snowjob. Thousands of extra e-mails. Printer drivers that don't do what my old ones did, with no way to fix them. My wallet lighter by 29 dollars. I'm feelin' the love, people.

Hi all.
Any progress on this VERY fustrating problem. I still get double emails from time to time (not every day, but once a week) and those RSS mails keep coming back! I too have been reporting this bug a couple of times!
Kind regards from
Steen

Similar problem. For me, I am running a MacBook Pro and an iPhone as the only two devices checking for mail. I use an Exchange Acct from work as the only email server. Duplicates are hit or miss (they are there today) and I never have more than two. I never have duplicates of messages that I have checked, only of new messages. The duplicates only show up when I first start up Mail, never with subsequent messages. There are no duplicates on the iPhone. I cannot delete the duplicates from Mail but I can read them. I copy my Mail folder from my user/library folder to the desktop (as a backup), then rebuild the inbox. The duplicates disappear and I can delete anything I want.

I have not seen a solution to this yet, have submitted it to Apple.

I'll chime in without much new to say. Two batches of duplicates, 220 or so each, over the course of a week. I guess we got off easy compared to some other posters. 600 some in the junk folder now, but of course it's junk, mostly, in the first place.

I have a thought: how many of us have a Time Machine, or another back-up device? Our TM does a complete back-up of some sort weekly -- could that somehow trigger it? (Yes, I'm woefully ignorant on these matters, and generally grateful to Apple for doing all the heavy lifting and fixing).

At this point I think it's totally random; I recently joined a Snow Leopard Server directory and Mail automatically created an account on my machine using IMAP, I was using the same account since years and was POP3 configured. Eventually Mail kept this account, which is one of the two I was seeing duplicates.

I deleted the POP3 account and kept the IMAP one, and no problems of duplication thus far.

I never use the other account on which email sometimes duplicates, so I also think that the problem not only is random, but also not linked to the pop3 server or general email activity.

Anyway I think Apple is investigating, we'll probably see a fix soon; at least that's my hope 🙂