591334 - Thunderbird redownloads all the messages, [FRQ] Edit-> Delete duplicates [pop]

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[jeroi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fi; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fi; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2

Thunderbird downloads from some servers like 7 duplicates to folder. In my case, it did not delete files at hotmail server and kept them there. Once in  a month or in 2 weeks, it downloadas all 3000 messages again from Hotmail account, and even tho I have marked all messages read -state on folder. Now I want to delecte all the dubplicates because my foldetr is starting to be huge with 7 duplcicates alreay per message. Could you please hurry, and implement edit->Delete duplicates so that users could delete all the duplicates from email folder?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create account for hotomal
2.in reboots Thunderbird downloads all the messages again even thos the messages are in readed -state.
3.
Actual Results:  
Have to manually delete all the duplicates which is fustruating.

Expected Results:  
Delete allDuplicates from email folder

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Something is corrupting your popstate.dat file.

There is an extension that does what you want https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=remove+duplicates&cat=all&lver=any&pid=1&sort=&pp=20&lup=&advanced=.

We should try to figure out why your popstate.dat file get's corrupted.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

xref bug 589369

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

jerio, can you get a pop3 log per https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging
please and attach a short piece to the bug which captures when you see the duplicates.