Mail.app downloading multiple copies of gmails
Title says it all. I wake my machine (10.3.9) and mail.app (1.3.11) says that I have 235 new messages. They are all duplicates of older messages from my gmail account.
I have no funny Rules.
1) Why this new behavior all of a sudden?
2) Any easy way to delete all duplicate emails?
Thanks, guys.
--B
I have no funny Rules.
1) Why this new behavior all of a sudden?
2) Any easy way to delete all duplicate emails?
Thanks, guys.
--B
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Originally posted by bergz
Title says it all. I wake my machine (10.3.9) and mail.app (1.3.11) says that I have 235 new messages. They are all duplicates of older messages from my gmail account.
I have no funny Rules.
1) Why this new behavior all of a sudden?
2) Any easy way to delete all duplicate emails?
Thanks, guys.
--B
Are you sure that you are not forwarding mail to another account?
Originally posted by Mr. Me
Are you sure that you are not forwarding mail to another account?
Nope, no forwarding. I have 2 accts, one httpmail and the other gmail. All of the duplicates were from the gmail acct.
Mail Help has a bunch of stuff on this, but none is relevant to me because I never fiddle with mail.
I have sent multiple test emails to both accts and none come back doubled.
One thing I didn't mention is that the 235 emails that did come double were doubles of random emails from the last 3 months or so, intermingled with all of my messages from that period. Some had attachments, some not, from multiple senders.
Don't get it.
Any idea on how to purge duplicates if they're no longer tagged as "new"?
--B
Originally posted by bergz
Nope, no forwarding. I have 2 accts, one httpmail and the other gmail. All of the duplicates were from the gmail acct.
Mail Help has a bunch of stuff on this, but none is relevant to me because I never fiddle with mail.
I have sent multiple test emails to both accts and none come back doubled.
One thing I didn't mention is that the 235 emails that did come double were doubles of random emails from the last 3 months or so, intermingled with all of my messages from that period. Some had attachments, some not, from multiple senders.
Don't get it.
Any idea on how to purge duplicates if they're no longer tagged as "new"?
--B
if you just started using gmail with Mail or just changed gmail settings, that's why there are problems.
Originally posted by ipodandimac
if you just started using gmail with Mail or just changed gmail settings, that's why there are problems.
Thanks. Very helpful.
I've been using gmail with mail.app for almost 3 months. I haven't logged into gmail to change the settings.
As I said, all of a sudden mail.app decided that a whole torrent of email messages saved in my gmail inbox were unread even though they were not only read but had been previously downloaded to the mail inbox as well.
--B
Originally posted by bergz
Thanks. Very helpful.
I've been using gmail with mail.app for almost 3 months. I haven't logged into gmail to change the settings.
As I said, all of a sudden mail.app decided that a whole torrent of email messages saved in my gmail inbox were unread even though they were not only read but had been previously downloaded to the mail inbox as well.
--B
interesting. i've had problems with gmail+mail after changed settings, but it's been fairly stable other than that. i imagine it's a problem from gmail's end.
Originally posted by ipodandimac
interesting. i've had problems with gmail+mail after changed settings, but it's been fairly stable other than that. i imagine it's a problem from gmail's end.
I don't know if there's a script or something, but do you have any ideas on how to purge the duplicated messages once they've been read?
--B
*If you're just trying to get rid of them, then maybe you could make a filter for unread messages (assuming you haven't re-read every single one) sort by date, and then delete any between the date when it started and when it stopped.
Originally posted by WhiteRabbit
So is this an ongoing thing? Is it the same 235 every time or what? What if you just select everything and flag it as read or delete them or something, will you log on tomorrow and have them all be marked unread again?
It has only happened twice, and they weren't the same messages. I didn't have time to deal with it the 1st time so I quickly marked them all as read because I didn't want to have to confirm individually that each was indeed a duplicate.
Now it's happened again. But it seems like two isolated incidents because it's not new mail, but just random messages on the server that're being erroneously marked as new after all this time.
It would be easy enough to erase them all when they enter being as they're marked "unread", however webmail is infamous for its lagged mails. How do I know that this "unread" message from last Friday is a duplicate just because it coincided with that other batch of duplicates?
I'm assuming from the radio silence out there that it'll be difficult to write a script or something to weed out the duplicate messages.
Prove me wrong, kids, prove me wrong.
--B
Originally posted by WhiteRabbit
*If you're just trying to get rid of them, then maybe you could make a filter for unread messages (assuming you haven't re-read every single one) sort by date, and then delete any between the date when it started and when it stopped.
They arrive with the original date, so I don't have 235 new mails from today's date but randomly interspersed ones from ever since I opened my gmail account.
--B
Originally posted by bergz
They arrive with the original date, so I don't have 235 new mails from today's date but randomly interspersed ones from ever since I opened my gmail account.
--B
What I ment was that if you were looing at your mail folder right after this happened, you would see all your original mail (read) and all the duplicates (unread).
If you forced it to only show unread mail, then, except for a few messages that you had only just recieved, it would be all duplicates (and maybe some messages that were never worth reading in the first place.)
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
There are various scripts that do things related to the Mail app, and one of them says that it can remove duplicates based on the message headers.
I have not tried it myself, but it looks like it might do the job.
Originally posted by bergz
Title says it all. I wake my machine (10.3.9) and mail.app (1.3.11) says that I have 235 new messages. They are all duplicates of older messages from my gmail account.
I have no funny Rules.
1) Why this new behavior all of a sudden?
2) Any easy way to delete all duplicate emails?
Thanks, guys.
--B
This happened to my wife's gmail today too, exact same situation. Not sure why. Deleted them all and things are fine now.
Originally posted by WhiteRabbit
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
looks like it might do the job.
It sure did! Gagged on some big attachments, but I moved them and it chugged on.
Thanks to all. A minor problem, but hey, they're not all OMFG Where Is My Home Folder!!
Guess that's why Gmail's still beta.
--B