i have had this dup email phenom. as well.....usually have over 6K pieces of email......
so we know we have a bug that causes the behaviour, but is there a mechanism to quickly clean up the mess? k Brian Heinrich wrote: > On 28 Sep 2002, it is alleged that Mario sauntered in to > netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed: > > > Iain Hallam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >> I've had quite a few crashes using > >> Mozilla (mostly when moving ~500 messages in one go), and have > >> consequently ended up with some folders that contain two copies of each > >> message. > > > > On Newsgroups:netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news Parish wrote on > > 2002-09-27 > > 09:55:01 PST : > > > > "Try deleting the Inbox.msf, while Moz is not running, then restart > > Moz > > and select your Inbox and it will recreate the index (it may flag > > some, > > or all, of your messages Unread but that's no big deal)." > > > > This helped me with a quite similar problem. Replace "inbox" with your > > problem folder's name, it resides usually on a WIN* system in a path > > like this: > > C:\WINDOOF\Anwendungsdaten\Mozilla\Profiles\marioludwig\4b4qsj2l.slt\Mail > > \pop3.cityweb.de\Inbox.msf > > > > HTH > > Mario > > That's actually unlikely to be the fix to the problem. Not sure why Moz > would be crashing (if there are a lot of messages, it might seem like it's > hung; check the progress metre in the status bar), however. > > There is, IIRC, a bug open on behaviour similar to this, so the OP could > always check Bugzilla. > > /b. > -- > Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to: > * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general > * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32 > * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac > * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix > Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
