Greetings Al,
The best way to clean up the "Apple Mail" mailbox is to:
Open ~Library/Mail then locate the file Envelope Index and drag it to your
desktop.
Then Open Mail, but when you open mail it will tell you that this is the
first time that you have open "Mail"
How ever that's Okay, click on the button to proceed and you will get a
message that says "importing mail"
If you have a lot of mail it could take quite a long time so be paicient.
When it;s done you'll have a clean install of your saved mail.
If you still have duplicates then your problem is elsewhere.
Let us know after you've done the rebuild.
Cheers
Harry
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On Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:08:13 PM UTC-7, Al Poulin wrote:
>
> Could Time Machine be messing me up with my email?
>
> I have the last 24" iMac, Display Port, March 2009, running Snow
> Leopard 10.6.8 with Mail 4.6.
>
> On October 16 and 25, the Inbox of one of my three accounts became
> populated with up to six, "unread" copies of emails. These emails had
> remained in the Inbox or been moved to other folders or into the Trash
> after reading. Some messages were not duplicated. I use POP mail and
> keep the window shade at the bottom of the window. The Inbox contents
> usually amount to about 3/4 of one screen full. With the duplicated
> messages, the contents amounted to over five screens.
>
> On both occasions, I restored the offending Inbox with Time Machine.
> Time Machine created its own folder in Mail and provided the correct
> Inbox contents in a new "Recovered Mailboxes" folder. I dragged the
> contents of the bad Inbox to the Trash and then dragged the contents
> of the Recovered Mailboxes folder to the now empty Inbox. And all
> seems well.
>
> There is nothing wrong at the Gmail website. The same email account
> behaves properly on other devices in the house.
>
> This morning, with my back to the machines, I heard the Time Capsule
> working and then go silent. In an instant, I then heard a new message
> alert. Turning around, I found the duplicate contents in the Inbox.
> Mail was set to check for new messages every minute.
>
> In Console, the All Messages file shows nothing that I can suspect
> related to the problem.
>
> Thanks for any enlightenment.
>
> Al Poulin
>
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