Multiple Copies of Emails

Here's a silly question- has anyone discovered that they don't have the MessageUids... file?

I've searched for it on both iMacs and MB I have and cannopt find that file name under the specified folder.

Any thoughts?

(I'm running OsX 10.6.1)

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.

You will not have this file unless you are using at least one POP account. Do you have any POP accounts, or only IMAP?

Ernie

I've got to the stage where I can't use my Mail app because of the duplicates and I can no longer survive without a functioning email system. Apple of course in true fashion can't be bothered to tell its users on its support forums whether they think there is/isn't a bug and if they think there is what they are doing about it and when we might expect a fix. That leaves an open-ended problem for me. I don't know whether it's my installation or Mail or something else and I've tried all the fixes I can think of and that have been suggested here - without success.

So I have some questions that I would like to pose to the responders here:

1. Has anyone had this problem with an IMPAP account rather than with a POP account?

2. How do I completely blow away Mail so that no earthly trace of it (and any of its supporting files) remains on my hard drive? Re-formatting my hard drive is not currently and option 😉

3. Do any of you use third party free email apps and if so which one and what do you think of it? Does it integrate well with iCal/Address Book?

4. What is (choking here) MS Entourage like to use and does it integrate with iCal/Address Book?

Many thanks
P1

Well it's early for confidence. But today is the first day since SL upgrade that I've started my computer in the morning after an overnight shutdown and not found already-downloaded messages still on the server. And this is also the first day after trying tron2k3's permissions hack. I don't know whether it's significant, but I couldn't add read & write permissions for "all groups" (no such option existed). But I was able to add read & write permissions for administrators. Seems logically irrelevant as I'm the only user and it already had read & write permissions for my user account. But be that as it may ... so far so good ..

I don't believe for a second that this problem is solved.

I just went two days without any duplicated messages - and then, 5 minutes ago, several hundred dupes appeared in my inbox. I've tried several of the proposed solutions presented here, and none of them have worked.

It seems like Mail is somehow forgetting about the messages it's previously downloaded, and downloads them again. Very frustrating. I'd love to hear from Apple that they are aware of and are working on the problem.

Message was edited by: Dave Troup

Yes, I have multiple POP accounts and this file is NOWHERE on my Mac. I am receiving multiple Pop emails.

I went several days until just now when duplicates downloaded in all of my e-mail accounts back to the last date the e-mails were still on the server. Prior to this they only duplicated from the day I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Obviously since then, several have been erased from the server.

So my choice is easy if I want to avoid deleting hundereds of duplicate e-mails each day: delete the messages from my server immediately and not have access to them on my iPhone. Not exactly what I signed up for when I gave all of my e-mail confidence to Apple.

also, WHY IS THIS THREAD MAREKD ANSWERED when it clearly ISN'T!?

Unfortunately I can confirm that the permission fix on MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3 doesn't solve the problem... After a while, duplicate messages are appearing again on two of my mail clients.

Having the same problem - but with my .mac/mobileme account

I had no problems with this until the last couple of days, and now I've got thousands of duplicates showing in Mail.app on my Pro, although www.me.com doesn't show any duplicates. If I delete one of the duplicates, the other copy of the message also disappears as soon as Mail syncs.

The only thing I can think of that might have triggered this behaviour is I've been away the last week and also using Mail.app on my MacBook, so two clients (both Snow Leopard 10.6.1/Mail.app) will have been accessing my .mac account.

I have no other accounts set up under Mail.app

Well, it's not a solved problem at this house either. First I had with my POP account then upgraded to 10.6.1 hoping that would solve it and had no problems for 2 weeks and then it came back again today. I found the same issue with my wife's Mobileme account. It has also seemingly gone away after upgrading but I doubt it's a permanent fix. Apple needs to put some work on this one.

After experiencing this same problem for a number of days, I tried the following fix and it has worked so far (24 hours of normal behavior)...

Go to Mail Preferences, select the Accounts tab, and then the Advanced menu. For each account, deselect each of the 3 checkboxes at the top, and then save the results (the program prompts you to save when you move on to the next account or when you try to leave the Advanced menu). Then revisit each account and reselect the checkboxes you want and save the results.

I was also having this problem with my Exchange account, seeing 2+ copies of the same message. I seem to have fixed this by Mailbox -> Rebuild and after a while, things seem to be back to normal. I don't know if there are any side effects but there are no more duplicates anymore.

I too have the same problem with duplicate mail as described in this thread. COncurrent with this problem is that each of the 4 mail accounts we have set up to a comcast pop server require passwords to be reentered about every 20 minutes that the Apple Mail client is open. Anyone else experiencing this?

Peter Monahan wrote:
For those who are experiencing this problem I have a couple of questions.

1. Are these POP mail accounts ?
2. Do you have more than one computer checking the same POP account and leaving copies on the server ?

Thanks

Peter

Just my Mobileme IMAP account - no other accounts present

Mail also accessed from MacBook (same situation) and iPhone. Problem seemed to start when accessing from MacBook.

Ernie,

I have 4 accounts- 2 are POP and 2 are IMAP. I've had this setup for about 3 years without any major issues. I still cannot find this file, nor is this issue resolved. I'm resorting to webmail which is frustratingly slow and comes with all the shortcomings that everyone knows about.

Argggghhhh

Dear geevee,

No guarantees (as this problem seems to resurface after having been "fixed" for a while), but my system has been running normally for 48 hours now after I tried the following procedure...

Go to Mail Preferences, select the Accounts tab, and then the Advanced menu. For each account, deselect each of the 3 checkboxes at the top, and then save the results (the program prompts you to save when you move on to the next account or when you try to leave the Advanced menu). Then revisit each account and reselect the checkboxes you want and save the results.

Gardener67