Re: Snowballing

[Wols Lists]

On 25/06/15 18:58, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> Am 25.06.2015 um 19:05 schrieb Wols Lists:
>> On 25/06/15 17:50, Simon Albrecht wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> is it just me who has been having a kind of ‘snowballing’ problem on the
>>> -user and -devel lists for the last two days or so? Most of the mails
>>> arrive two up to six (!) times, and I’ve no clue why. A bug in mailman?
>>>
>> I have this problem all the time. I've always thought it was my setup -
>> home mailserver and thunderbird client.
>>
>> It looks to me like, if your email triggers a rule, the rule sometimes
>> fires multiple times making a lovely mess of your folders :-)
> Ok, that would fit, except for the fact that it started to do so only
> yesterday…

Has anything changed in your setup? What I'm GUESSING is happening is
that something else is setting a lock on the mailbox, and thunderbird is
successfully copying, but then failing to delete, and then copying again ...
>>
>> There's a thunderbird add-in that'll clean up the mess,
> Do you know the name? I might try that.
> 
It's called "remove duplicate messages", current version here
(presumably actual current) is 0.1.14

Cheers,
Wol