[Dovecot] Duplicate messages when moving message to inbox
Hello,
I am encountering a strange problem but I'm not sure if it's a dovecot problem or a Mac Mail problem. The symptom is that if I move a message from a folder into my inbox the message ends up showing up as a duplicate in Mac Mail. On the server it's still just one message.
This ONLY happens when I move a message IN to the inbox. It does not happen when I move a message out of my inbox into a folder, or when I move a message between folders.
I can force a sync on Mac Mail and the duplicate is still there. If however I quit Mac Mail and start it up again, the duplicate disappears.
I can move one of the duplicated messages out of my inbox into a folder and then back into my inbox repeatedly and end up with (apparently) an arbitrary number of copies of the same message. On the server, though, there is still only one file.
Surely I'm not the first person to have encountered this behavior? Does anyone happen to know if this is a dovecot bug or a Mac Mail bug (or, hopefully, a configuration problem)?
Thanks, rg
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:04:07 -0800 Ron Garret wrote:
I am encountering a strange problem but I'm not sure if it's a dovecot problem or a Mac Mail problem. The symptom is that if I move a message from a folder into my inbox the message ends up showing up as a duplicate in Mac Mail. On the server it's still just one message.
Ron, i just tried to repeat this on my Mac (OS 10.6.6) Mail 4.4 (1082) but i have only one mail not a duplicate. Maybe i misunderstood, but that is what i did: i moved with webmail (squirrelmail) an email from the SENT-Folder to the INBOX and rechecked mails on my mac. I get then just this newly moved mail, but not two of them. If i move it back to the SENT Folder, shortly after, it disappears in Mac Mail like it should.
I guess this is most likely a bug or misconfiguration in Mac Mail. This mail client is really not perfect ;-)
Regards, franc walter
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