[MlMt] Multiple copies of 'same' item showing in folders

[TJ Luoma]

I think these are some of the issues that come up with using Gmail via
IMAP.

Gmail doesn't do IMAP like other clients. And one of the things that it
does is create duplicate messages when a message is located in more than
one 'folder'. It's my understanding that it does this because you may
decide that you want to 'delete' the one in the Important box but keep the
one in the Starred box, so it has to be two separate messages, as far as
IMAP is concerned.

All of which is to say that there is probably one of the things you're just
going to have to expect when dealing with IMAP from Gmail, regardless of
which client you use, except the web client, of course.

TjL








On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Jonathan Clark <jonathan at clarksonline.me.uk
> wrote:

> I use Gmail, and star/flog some items as more urgent ones to deal with. In
> MM I'm wanting to use the built-in 'Flagged' smart folder, but I often get
> multiple copies of apparently the same email shown in it. When I expand out
> its sub-folders (which includes [Gmail]/Starred, [Gmail]/Important and
> INBOX), I see what's happening: each of these is showing the message as
> flagged. These all appear to be the exact same message (same timestamps
> etc.) but turning on the UID column I see that each one has a different
> UID. (I'm running build 3900, but this has been the case on earlier builds
> too.)
>
> To me this isn't expected behaviour, but I don't want to claim it's a bug,
> since I don't understand what the different UIDs imply, and how they got to
> be applied.  Can anyone help?
>
> I don't remember including both [Gmail]/Starred and [Gmail]/Important
> sub-folders under Flagged, but presumably this happens because MM is being
> smart and listing any folder that contains any flagged items. But if so,
> then I might need a way of ignoring the [Gmail]/Starred if it's always
> going to pick up starred items from another folder as well ..?
>
> Yours rather confusedly,
>
> -- Jonathan
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