{"id":2656,"date":"2010-03-10T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:01:30","slug":"duplicate-emails-being-downloaded-from-apple-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/duplicate-emails-being-downloaded-from-apple-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplicate emails being downloaded from Apple Mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve tried everything I know and searched everywhere, but I can’t find an answer to this problem. Several of my clients have this issue and now I have it, after adding two new accounts to Mail – both of the new accounts are effected, but the older ones work fine.<\/p>\n
Mail picks up email and filters out spam just fine. The problem is with emails I have either deleted or flagged as spam. Mail doesn’t remove them from the server even though I have my preferences set to delete them “Right Away”<\/p>\n
Then the next time Mail pickup email, it picks those same messages up as “unread.” No matter how many times I delete them, they keep coming back as “unread” messages. If I manually delete them, using the “Remove Now” button in preferences, that solves the problem.<\/p>\n
I have repeatedly rebuilt these mailboxes since creating the accounts a few weeks ago, but I keep having the same problem. The server recognizes them as “read” becasue I can delete them manually, but apparently Mail thinks they are unread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If Mail.app starts behaving weirdly, you could try deleting all the preference files and starting from scratch … note that doing this will delete all e-mail account settings, so it’s a good idea to write down all the relevant details first:<\/p>\n
WARNING: This is the “so-called” Nuclear Option, for reseting your mail, keep reading first…<\/p>\n
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Quit out of Mail.app<\/li>\n
Backup up your mail & preferences\n
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Backup com.apple.mail.* from your Library\/Preferences folder<\/li>\n
Backup ~\/Library\/Mail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
Delete the com.apple.mail.plist file (it’s in your user accounts’ Library\/Preferences folder)<\/li>\n
Delete the MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded file (it will be in your user accounts’ Library\/Mail\/POP-user@mail.internode.on.netfolder)<\/li>\n
Open Mail.app and run through the setup wizard again<\/li>\n
Import all of the mailboxes back in to Mail.app<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
It’s a relatively complex procedure, but it’s helped me out once or twice when everything’s gone haywire.<\/p>\n
The above process is fairly radical and effectively forces you to recreate your mail setup, if it’s a minor issue, it maybe better to address the issue directly.<\/p>\n
Try, Quiting Mail, and just deleting your MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded file, but make sure that you have a complete backup. \u00c2\u00a0There have been reports that it resolves the issue easily, and simply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve tried everything I know and searched everywhere, but I can’t find an answer to this problem. Several of my clients have this issue and now I have it, after adding two new accounts to Mail – both of the new accounts are effected, but the older ones work fine. Mail picks up email and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,25],"tags":[141,41,196,63,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}