Receiving Duplicate Emails

A

alexeckhart

Every couple months or so, Entourage decides it wants to receive all
800 emails all over again, I already have doubles of many, how do I
keep Entourage from doing this??? I need to check today and yesterdays
emails, but I don't want to put another 1000 emails in my inbox. Any
ideas????
 
D

Diane Ross

Every couple months or so, Entourage decides it wants to receive all
800 emails all over again, I already have doubles of many, how do I
keep Entourage from doing this??? I need to check today and yesterdays
emails, but I don't want to put another 1000 emails in my inbox. Any
ideas????
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Usually this is server error and not Entourage. If you rebuild Entourage it
will loose the info and download all messages left on server.

About the only advice I can give you is to point you to the Delete Duplicate
scripts to deal with the result.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/duplicates.html>
 
M

Metritype

I used to have the same problem. Seven months ago I switched to Apple
Mail and it hasn't happened since.
 
J

Jolly Roger

I used to have the same problem. Seven months ago I switched to Apple
Mail and it hasn't happened since.
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Pure coincidence. The problem is typically caused by the server, not
the client.
 
J

Jolly Roger

I used to have the same problem. Seven months ago I switched to Apple
Mail and it hasn't happened since.
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Obviously this does happen with Apple Mail as well:

<http://tinyurl.com/2adgnm>

<http://tinyurl.com/2hfuou>

etc.

As Diane mentioned, several scripts have been written to remove
duplicate messages from Entourage:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/duplicates.html>

One of them is written by yours truly: "Remove Duplicate Messages"
Author: Jolly Roger

What I like about mine is it doesn't just go by the subject, date, and
sender, but also by the message ID, which is always unique - so my
script won't think two messages are the same by accident. Also, my
script keeps a log of what it does and archives all messages it deletes
so if you want one back you can just drag it back into Entourage.
 
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