On 23 Oct 2015, at 15:05, Jason Davies wrote:
Two Macs (laptop, Mac Pro) using Mailmate at different times of teh day. I sat down and created some rules to help filter messages on both machines. Sometime just after that I started noticing duplicates appearing after I move messages to different folders.
If two installs of MailMate have the same rules to move messages then there is a race condition. Moving a message is not quite an atomic action. If the two installs see the same message at the same time then they are both going to try to move it (if a rule matches). One of them is probably going to fail with most IMAP servers, but MailMate detects this error and instead the message is explicitly uploaded to the destination mailbox (generating the duplicate).
A workaround could be to introduce a delay in one of the email clients by creating an alternative Inbox (smart mailbox) with messages more than x seconds old. Then add the rules to this mailbox on one of the machines.
(MailMate could cancel a move if it finds an identical email in the destination mailbox, but this would also be a hack -- also MailMate is currently not very good at locating identical emails.)
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