Duplicate IDNet.com email messages

cs2008 · Jul 15, 2008, 19:10:31

Hi,

Today, I noticed that my email client (Apple Mail) decided to download all of my email messages from the server again (all 680 of them !) I assume this was due to the aftermath of the recent email problem.

Any idea how I can delete all the duplicate messages, without going through them all manually ?

Cheers,
Chris.

Rik · Jul 15, 2008, 19:12:58

Hi and welcome to the forum.

I'm not an Apple person, Chris, so I don't know an answer. If no-one else chimes in, have a quick word with support - they speak Mac.

You are right in surmising that it's to do with the restoration of the data from the old mail server, btw.

cs2008 · Jul 15, 2008, 19:15:03

Rik,

Thanks for the amazingly quick reply !
I'll send a message to support.

Cheers,
Chris.

Glenn · Jul 15, 2008, 19:20:20

Chris, I don't have a Mac myself, but this may help http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/13/removing-duplicate-messages-in-apple-mail/

Lance · Jul 15, 2008, 19:46:39

Can you sort messages by read/unread? That should make it simple to get the duplicates together, select them all and delete them!

Sebby · Jul 15, 2008, 20:05:54

cs2008 · Jul 16, 2008, 12:29:33

Quote from: Glenn on Jul 15, 2008, 19:20:20
Chris, I don't have a Mac myself, but this may help http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/13/removing-duplicate-messages-in-apple-mail/

Glenn,

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Lance,

Your idea probably would have worked, had I not already marked them all as read !

Chris.

Bill · Jul 17, 2008, 10:37:43

Sort them by "Date Received", all the re-sent ones should then be together and be easier to get rid of.

Lance · Jul 17, 2008, 12:37:12

I'm afraid that won't work, Bill. The date received is the date it was received into the mailbox, not the mail client.

Bill · Jul 17, 2008, 17:20:12

Not as a general technique admittedly, but all the duplicate messages (from Trevor?) arrived here with the same timestamp, and were thus easy to group together.

Rik · Jul 17, 2008, 18:00:38

Alas, poor Trevor, I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times

But Trevor is now dead.

Glenn · Jul 17, 2008, 18:21:41

What was the cause of Trevor's demise?

Rik · Jul 17, 2008, 18:23:45

A mass of SCSI errors, but I'm not sure whether that was disk or controller, Glenn. I'll hear more when Simon is back from his holiday. It does make me wonder if Dell did the repair correctly last year.

Tacitus · Jul 17, 2008, 18:27:39

Quote from: Rik on Jul 17, 2008, 18:23:45
... It does make me wonder if Dell did the repair correctly last year.

So Trevor was the spawn of Dell......

Sebby · Jul 17, 2008, 18:29:07

Dell? Properly repair? I wouldn't have thought so. Repair at the cheapest cost to them, perhaps.

Rik · Jul 17, 2008, 18:31:52

Quote from: Tacitus on Jul 17, 2008, 18:27:39
So Trevor was the spawn of Dell......

Indeed he was.

Rik · Jul 17, 2008, 18:32:50

Quote from: Sebby on Jul 17, 2008, 18:29:07
Dell? Properly repair? I wouldn't have thought so. Repair at the cheapest cost to them, perhaps.

That's the obvious thought, Seb, corners cut so sharply that they met themselves coming back.

Glenn · Jul 17, 2008, 18:37:00

I have not any problems at work with Dell when calling for support/getting an field engineer to site through to a fix, on the PC's and laptops we have. They are also more reliable than the HP laptop and PC's that we are moving to.

Sebby · Jul 17, 2008, 18:39:16

Fair enough.

Rik · Jul 17, 2008, 18:42:51

I've always had good service from HP, Glenn, but no personal experience of Dell. OTOH, it is an unfortunate coincidence that the disk array on Trevor has failed twice in nine months.

Simon · Jul 17, 2008, 21:29:27

Quote from: Tacitus on Jul 17, 2008, 18:27:39
So Trevor was the spawn of Dell......

Well, he certainly went to Dell and back again!

Trevor.

Tacitus · Jul 17, 2008, 21:43:46

Quote from: Simon on Jul 17, 2008, 21:29:27
Well, he certainly went to Dell and back again!

Simon · Jul 17, 2008, 21:50:44

lee · Jul 17, 2008, 22:04:35

Hi Chris,

I feel like the lone gunman here...but I am a mac freak. Do you have a .mac/me account. If you do when the mail servers were changed over the preference file will have been confused(for want of a better word ) and run a script which would ask it to get all its imap email. You may or may n ot have noticed a new folder in your menu on the left as well.

the best thing to do is go to your library in your home folder>preference>com.apple.mail.plist

delete this file, logout and then log back in and open up mail. If this doesn't correct the problem go to your home folder again>mail> make a copy of this folder on your desktop just to be sure and then look for any replica folders with inbox's etc and delete this file.

Then reopen mail.

Hope this helps you out.

Lee

Den · Jul 17, 2008, 22:05:14

Poor Trevor was a Dell link went

naughty boy