On Feb 23, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Mark James wrote:
I agree about needing this feature, (I have it set to keep mail on
server
for many accounts) but it does not matter whether this is enabled or
disabled, the duplicate mail problem is a permanent bug with
emailer now.
I believe the problem has to do with deleting the temp files from the
temp incoming folder. I think what happens is periodically, an email
(or two) fails to delete, so on the next unpacking round, that email
is unpacked a 2nd time.
On the other hand, that could have just been the theory that I came
up with before I stopped using Emailer and failed to verify the
information.
There are two ways to check for this. 1: Watch the email in the
Connection Status window as it downloads. Take a mental note of the
subject lines (and in particular, how many emails it says it needs to
download). Then compare that to what is unpacked. Is there an email
that didn't pass thru the Connection Status display and/or are there
more emails unpacked then the Status said were being downloaded. If
either is true, then it appears to be a local client side issue (ie:
failure to delete the temp incoming file).
The other way to check it is to keep a display of the Temp Incoming
folder open and watch and see if files are being left in there after
Emailer is done unpacking messages. This has the downside that it may
cause the creation of a .DS_Store file, which will then screw up
unpacking anyway, and may override the duplicate email error. This
can probably be gotten around by using something to display the
contents of the folder that won't cause the Finder to try to track
info about the folder (ie: view the folder using ls in the command
line, you would have to type ls after every unpacking session to
review the contents... but presumably, if this is an annoying bug, it
is happening rather often so you shouldn't need to do this too many
times before verifying if the problem is local or remote based).
Once we ID what causes the problem, we might be able to come up with
a work around.
-chris
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