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There are also reports that filtering or attachments also tickle this.

Many of the Bugzillas suggest popstate.dat may be being corrupted, e.g. The underlying root-cause sounds like the hash file 'popstate.dat' in which TB keeps a hash of message date, time, sender, subject etc. TB should be able to handle this robustly, no matter how crappy Hotmail might be.

There are many other manifestations of duplicate mail in TB, so do not start arguing that the culprit is Hotmail and not Thunderbird itself. The Remove Duplicate Messages extension for Thunderbird provides you with options to remove those duplicate messages in the mail client. To get these bugs more prominence, register on Bugzilla and vote for them. Then again it might not be, it might also be 284526, 591334, maybe 612136 or other. In the Thunderbird Bugzilla, there are many bugs over many years for 'duplicate email', but the main culprit for my issue might be Bug 608242 - 'Hotmail still downloading duplicate messages'. Many reports, few solutions and none that work 100%.) (Yes I already read the Help, FAQ, Release Notes, Bugzilla, archives and googled the web.

We're talking downloading 9000 duplicate emails here every single time it checks mail, it's nearly unuseable.

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(Email account)->Server Settings: enable 'Leave messages on server', 'Until I delete them'Īlso as a manual fallback I installed the add-on 'Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate) 0.3.5' by eyalroz, which works well.Įverything worked fine until last week (you never see duplicates because Thunderbird deletes them on-the-fly), then last week it started getting duplicates again, despite the settings.

set Tools->Options->ConfigEditor->Advanced:_action = 1.

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I installed Thunderbird 3.1.5 last month (it's awesome!) and configured it to not download duplicate emails using the following well-known solution, this all worked fine until last week:

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Just install ThunderBrowse and you'll have an embedded browser right inside Thunderbird.It is a known issue with Thunderbird 3.x that it downloads duplicate emails. Now you no longer need to depend upon your browser to the URL that your friend forwarded. In my opinion, this significantly enhances Thunderbird. The last thing you really want is for an entirely new application - your default Internet browser - to open just so that you can view the page.Įnter ThunderBrowse. An alternative to it is to copy message(s) and paste. Most decent email clients these days have the ability to quickly display webpages of URLs that are embedded in E-mail. Move all or selected messages from source to the destination folder in a single drag-&-drop click. First check this and set Thunderbird to delete messages from the server: go to 'Tools -> Account Settings -> Server settings', and uncheck 'Leave messages on server.' If not you could also try Compacting the Mail folders or Compact folders, exit Thunderbird, and go to your mail folders (in your profile folder). from merging folders or downloading messages several times) you can use this tool to find and remove them by choosing 'Remove Duplicate Messages' from the context menu. 5 Thunderbird Add-Ons That Enhance Your Email Experience Thunderbrowse This is the abandoned Remove Duplicate Messages add-on, rewritten for Thunderbird 68. You've seen a number of Thunderbird add-ons featured here at MUO, including Aibek's older list of must-haves, as well as Damien's older list of 10 must-haves as well. In this article, I'd like to freshen up those lists with 5 of the best Thunderbird add-ons that I feel transforms the email client into a better email management tool than Gmail. The one thing that always bothered me about Thunderbird though, compared to using Gmail, is the fact that Gmail simply does a better job at organizing email threads. Only recently did I learn that there are actually a number of very cool Thunderbird add-ons that make Thunderbird rival even Gmail in terms of simplicity and organization.

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