Multiple Copies of Emails

Bummer!

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"Hate to be a wet blanket. But I wouldn't expect lasting joy from any of the strategies suggested so far. I've tried nearly all of them ... trash MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3 ... Mail in 32-bit mode ... exclude MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3 from TM backup ...

Result from each one singly and various combinations thereof was essentially the same: respite from duplicates for rest of the day / duplicates back the following morning."

So man, why is this thread listed as "answered"? We've had this problem with two separate MacBooks on SL, downloading from two different ISPs, with a Time Machine for backups. Is Apple going to fix this?

It's answered because Apple says it is. Haven't you read their press releases? You know, the ones that tout SL as one step away from being a cure for cancer?

I think it is answered because the OP found the advice to purge the MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3 file, and relaunch Mail to work. They may have subsequently found things messed up again and not removed the Solved, but if so, that would be due to the issue with TM. Let's hope that TM will be fixed with the next update, but for those either using IMAP only accounts, or not using TM it is either not a problem or fixed by purging that aforementioned file. It should be noted, however, that some ISPs are known to find more problems with that file, even before Snow Leopard.

Apple would not mark any topic solved -- only the original poster can do that.

Ernie

Message was edited by: Ernie Stamper

I thought I would add my name to list of people affected by this. Now my email is rejecting my POP password about every minute or so which means if I leave email open, I get a dialog box asking me for the password constantly. Sometimes if takes it, sometimes it takes 3 times entering sometimes I just have to quit email. "Mail" is a an absolute mess right now.

Peter, yes, exactly. Just changd providers and new email addresses. New problem. SLeopard

Add me to the list. I've got a new imac, transferred my data via a Time Capsule backup. It worked o.k. for a couple of days, but now I too am getting duplicates and triplicates of every email on my POP account in Mac Mail.

Despite all the complexity of this issue, the thing I keep coming back to in my case is this:

Whilst running Mail.app under 10.6.x I continually had this problem. For the last 27 days I've been running Postbox as my mail client accessing the same accounts and I have never had any duplicate emails on the Mac.

So whilst ISPs and voodoo may be involved here it seems that the common elements are 10.6.x and Mail.app

Regards

Mike

You're absolutely right.

So how do we bang a metal cup on the bars of our cell? I have AppleCare so I guess I could just call, but if you look at the SL "Mail and Address Book" subsection of the forum, this thread is the most viewed by several orders of magnitude (15,447 views with 278 replies, nothing else is even close). Does anybody from Apple ever pipe up and step in?

This topic is NOT solved. I've done all the things that have been said to do, every suggestion and I still get duplicates! I get duplicates even on my laptop that doesn't have time machine configured on it, so I think it goes beyond time machine.

I must add myself to this list. I am running Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro at work and on my iMac at home. The home machine is off when I'm at work. I am not using Time machine on either. My work email account is on an Exchange server, accessed through Exchange (not imap or pop). On my home machine, every message from work comes down twice. My non-work email accounts (principally gmail through imap) are fine. This is an annoying problem.

I hate to say it, but my name is Dirk and I have a mail problem.
It's a POP-account checked by both my MAc Pro and iPhone and used by webmail. Although I found that cleaning up the mail server, using folders in my webmail for stuff I really need and changing teh setting for automated checking to 15 minutes helped, there are still problems.

I just got of the line with a guy from AppleCare. This is a bug in the software that Apple knows about. The rep told me to be patient and in a day or so he hoped that an update fixing this would be released. I'm up to over 3K "unread" messages in my in-box. For once it wasn't something I was doing wrong! Yay! Apple's human.

Well, at least that's acknowledgement at last! I know 10.6.2 is due out soon, but the fix list for it didn't include anything about Mail.app, and Apple aren't just going to release a standalone fix, so I just hope it's an OS level issue that's going to be addressed with 10.6.2

Thanks for calling! Glad to know they're finally on it.