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Title: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: henry44 on September 04, 2009, 04:44:02 AM
I spent about an hour searching the forums and obviously didn't use the correct search string. When I set up a new e-mail account using MS Outlook, SME returns a copy of each e-mail (every e-mail comes out as doubles). Old accounts do not do this.

What should I be looking as a cause?
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: larieu on September 04, 2009, 08:53:43 AM
what protocol do you use?

POP3
POP3S
IMAP
IMAPS

Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: henry44 on September 04, 2009, 05:25:37 PM
Sorry.....

It is a plain vanilla install of SME (no contribs) using pop3 e-mail protocol with Outlook as the reader.
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: paradigm on September 04, 2009, 06:03:38 PM
Does this happen also in horde or only when receiving mail in outlook ?

Are you pulling mail from the same account with to diffrent mail clients ?

And if yes to the above maybe "leave copy on the server" is checked on one of them ?
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: henry44 on September 04, 2009, 06:46:02 PM
Only in outlook. Single account in outlook. "Leave copy on server" was the first thing I checked for. In my wanderings through the forums, I was able to find that piece of info.

Thanks for the suggestion. Is there anymore info I could provide that would be useful?
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: paradigm on September 05, 2009, 12:16:10 AM
Can you check this using Horde (send a new mail to that account and only check in horde) ,

Maybe its a strange outlook issue...

another long shot in the dark , check the mail's "X-Copied-To" and the "Delivered-To" ...
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: henry44 on September 05, 2009, 06:04:00 AM
I am getting double e-mails in Horde as well (didn't think I was).

Here are the headers of the 2 e-mails

e-mail 1

Return-Path: <henry@mrlistersir.com>
Delivered-To: henry44@henry.alpinepump.com
Received: (qmail 4812 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2009 03:51:58 -0000
Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-henry44@alpinepump.com
Received: (qmail 4809 invoked by uid 453); 5 Sep 2009 03:51:58 -0000
X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on alpinepump.com
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0
   tests=
X-Spam-Check-By: alpinepump.com
Received: from larry-server.mrlistersir.com (HELO mrlistersir.com) (207.55.114.23)
    by alpinepump.com (qpsmtpd/0.40) with SMTP; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:51:54 -0700
Received: (qmail 11361 invoked by uid 453); 5 Sep 2009 03:51:53 -0000
X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on mrlistersir.com
Received: from lenny.mrlistersir.com (HELO [127.0.0.1]) (192.168.1.249)
    by mrlistersir.com (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:51:52 -0700
Message-ID: <4AA1E059.1080300@mrlistersir.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:51:53 -0700
From: Henry Gillow-Wiles <henry@mrlistersir.com>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: henry44@alpinepump.com
Subject: test1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

e-mail 2

Return-Path: <henry@mrlistersir.com>
Delivered-To: henry44@henry.alpinepump.com
Received: (qmail 4812 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2009 03:51:58 -0000
Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-henry44@alpinepump.com
Received: (qmail 4809 invoked by uid 453); 5 Sep 2009 03:51:58 -0000
X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on alpinepump.com
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0
   tests=
X-Spam-Check-By: alpinepump.com
Received: from larry-server.mrlistersir.com (HELO mrlistersir.com) (207.55.114.23)
    by alpinepump.com (qpsmtpd/0.40) with SMTP; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:51:54 -0700
Received: (qmail 11361 invoked by uid 453); 5 Sep 2009 03:51:53 -0000
X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on mrlistersir.com
Received: from lenny.mrlistersir.com (HELO [127.0.0.1]) (192.168.1.249)
    by mrlistersir.com (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:51:52 -0700
Message-ID: <4AA1E059.1080300@mrlistersir.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:51:53 -0700
From: Henry Gillow-Wiles <henry@mrlistersir.com>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: henry44@alpinepump.com
Subject: test1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I can't see any differences in the message id's or other aspects of the e-mails.
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: henry44 on September 23, 2009, 01:38:37 AM
Any thoughts?

It doesn't seem to matter if I use outlook, thunderbird, pop3, imap, or the webmail interface. There still are double e-mails. I tried different workstations and different operating systems. Still double e-mails. I am stumped.
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: paradigm on September 23, 2009, 06:42:25 AM
I think you should open a bug report..
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: henry44 on September 23, 2009, 06:45:18 AM
I thought of that, but it is happening on only one of 3 sme installs of which I am care taking. All 3 are plain vanilla stock installs with no contribs.
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: paradigm on September 23, 2009, 08:35:24 PM
If something isn't working out of the box i think you should open a bug report
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: Stefano on September 23, 2009, 09:16:13 PM
If something isn't working out of the box i think you should open a bug report

you've stolen the words from my fingertips..
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: henry44 on September 23, 2009, 11:55:57 PM
OK, I'll do that.
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: shawnbishop on September 24, 2009, 07:26:39 PM
mm..strange..only time I have had this is..

1. The line speed so there was a time out issues, so mail was being delivered incorreclty, and ...

2. the sending server sent two emails...who is the mrlistersir.com server??, could they be sending you a copy of the mail?
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: CharlieBrady on September 24, 2009, 08:00:45 PM
Shawn, please post all followup via the bug tracker. Thanks.
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: gippsweb on September 28, 2009, 10:24:11 AM
I normally find duplicate emails in Outlook to be caused by a broken mail sorting rule..
Title: Re: Double e-mails using MS outlook
Post by: henry44 on October 24, 2009, 09:17:52 AM
Finally, after lots of patience on the part the dev team (thanks a bunch) and some foolishness on my part, I found the solution. There had (unknown to me) been some contribs installed on the server in early version 6 and (also unknown to me) these were brought forward via the backup/restore tapes to land in the fresh install. There was a particular contrib that caused the problem. This was detailed and solved in bug #401 (from 2004).

Again, this was an odd problem that was particular to the set-up I am dealing with and I want to thank those that helped me solve the problem.

Henry