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Search in Mail (exchange account) gives duplicate results

ok - so assume that I know a bit about what I am asking - not a POP issue - not a corrupt exchange account, etc.


When looking into the inbox for the account - ONLY one copy exists.


When going to the accounts and then inbox - ONLY one copy exists


When looking into the all inboxes (irrelevant for this case - but I thought I would throw it in in case something thinks that might be it) - ONLY one copy exists.


When searching in the inbox of the account (wether I choose all mailboxes or current mailbox) - I see two of each email.


When going to the accounts and then inbox and searching (wether I choose all mailboxes or current mailbox) - I see two of each email.


When searching in the all inboxes (wether I choose all mailboxes or current mailbox) - I see two of each email.


One copy is NOT in sent/deleted.


Even if I open (therefore removing 'unread status') all of the multiple copies the duplicates still show in search.


The unread counts always show just the actual email when looking at the inboxes...and always show both the 'real message' and the duplicate in the count of the searches.


They can both be opened - though they produce the same exact info.


When I click edit (from the search) - only one gets the radio button to do something with it - and only that same one can use a gesture (move/trash/more/etc).


When the one without the ability to be edited/deleted gets opens - the unread status of the other does NOT change (on phone or server).


When the one that can be edited/deleted gets removed - the duplicate remains in the search (and cannot be deleted!!!!!!!!!!!!!).


Personally - I never searched this way before io7 - but some of the users I support did. There is essentially a ghosting happening here.


PRE-ios7 experience - the user (who has been doing this for years) needs to move all emails from his Inbox from Mr. Joe Blow into Mr. Joe Blow's folder. previously only inbox emails were visible (first issue - now the whole darn account is searched) and previously only one copy of an email was visible (second - and really important issue). He would select all and move them.


Now - all of the emails from Mr. Joe Blow are duplicated - and he has to scroll through a mountain in order to select the ones he wants to move. The ghosted emails do not go away - not even when the 'real' email has been moved to another folder or completely deleted.


So - this is irritating today - but in a month will be completely debilitating.


This needs to be addressed by apple ASAP!!!!!!!!!!


Just fyi - there is no email syncing happening - there is no gmail anything - there is no @me account duplicating - there is no other reason for the nonsense. In case it wasn't obvious from the title - it is an exchange set up - not pop - not imap.


AND - it is happening on multiple phones. THOUGHTS???????????????

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 20, 2013 4:42 PM

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Oct 28, 2013 7:31 PM in response to mtnsupport

Вот вам еще по русски:

Такая же ерунда на ipad2, iphone4 - дублируются письма при поиске, причем нижнее открывается, а верхнее - нет.

+еще и не все письма загружаются с сервера: при wifi 30 mbit загрузка идет минут по 10. На ios6 такого не было.

Nov 11, 2013 2:40 PM in response to mtnsupport

I am having the same issue. I'm a sr director for a Fortune 100 company so this is not limited to small shops. This duplicate email on search but is negatively impacting my efficiency of getting through emails on my phone. Apple, you have to resolve this as it's going to cause me to switch to an Android based phone. Can't deal worth the on efficiency. Not only are the emails duplicated on a search, but you can only delete one of the duplicates.


iPhone 5, ios 7

Nov 26, 2013 10:33 PM in response to syi00001

it seened, that problem occurs only with MS Exchange mailboxes.

Here is Apple answer on my ticket:

"К сожалению, на данный момент новой информации нет. Поскольку данная проблема связана с Microsoft Exchange, мы не можем предугадать как данный сервис стороннего производителя будет взаимодействовать с iOS 7. В том числе невозможно сказать с уверенностью о том, позволит ли выход iOS 7.1.0 исправить данную проблему."


So, you can see, that Apple do not know how this problem could be resolved.

Jan 19, 2014 9:07 AM in response to mtnsupport

I think I've discovered the cause but don't have a solution, maybe someone else does. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe iOS 7 introduced server-side searches for Exchange mail, so it searches both the local (downloaded) and server message stores (this seems to be true only when you search from the Mail app, but not from Spotlight). For downloaded messages, it's returning two hits, one from each store, instead of removing the server-side copy from the hits. I'm pretty sure this is what's going on, because the local hits appear immediately, followed by a brief pause (I assume as the server is processing the query), and then the duplicates.


In fact, I've found it's even worse: for server-only hits it returns a hit for each level in the folder hierarchy; for example, if the message is filed under /Business/Letters/CompanyX, it will display 3 copies, one for each folder level.

Feb 13, 2014 11:49 AM in response to mtnsupport

While this is by no means a real fix...I may have at least stumbled on a way to make it less annoying (at least for my CEO). He just doesn't like "seeing" the duplicates and then having only one radio button work makes it even worse. But the only reason it is showing them duplicated is because he had "organize by thread" turned off in the settings/mail, contacts & calendars. Turning that back on at least puts the "duplicates" in the search into a threaded message so it doesn't look like they are duplicated unless you go into it and then see them both. I know this is just pushing them down a level but he has 10's of thousands of messages and the duplicates within the main search field was really annoying. Hopefully Apple/Microsoft can fix this soon!!!!

Search in Mail (exchange account) gives duplicate results

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