I've installed and setup Ximian Evolution 2.0.2 and it seems to be really nice.
I'm using it to access 2 email accounts - one regular POP account, and another using hotwayd to download my hotmail. After intially retrieving emails, during the course of the day it randomly downloads multiple copies of emails it has already downloaded previously from hotwayd, but not from the POP account.
I've used the same setup with Thunderbird and Kmail without the same problem occuring.

I have it set to leave the messages on the server, but that shouldn't be a problem. Any ideas?

cheers

I believe your problem is caused by leaving the message on the server.

...but then that would mean it is a flaw in Ximian for not flagging the message correctly. He re downloads it probably because he sees it as a new e-mail message.

Unfortunately, beyond my observation I don't have a solution for you besides going back to Thunderbird.

That's true - it's up to the email client to flag downloaded messages as read internally, as the POP protocol doesn't offer any means of doing so on the server. Evolution should handle it itself if they're left on the server or not.

It's more likely to be some kind of interaction with hotwayd, as my regular POP account which is also set to leave messages on the server doesn't have the same problem.

I am having this problem, it is driving me crazy - it is the one single problem that eats me with UbuntuLinux 4.10. Curiously, though: Usually, it only downloads the most recent messages, but sometimes older ones, too - never all of them. Bizarre. So with my 2 mail accounts holding a sum of some 350 e-mails, Evolution has collected a total of... 1132.

OSourceDiplomat - are your accounts both POP? I've only had the problem occur with hotwayd accessing hotmail accounts. When it got to about 10 copies of some emails I abandoned Evolution and went back to the latest Thunderbird which now also has threaded message views.

Anyone figure this one out? I have the problem right now, and its driving ME crazy!

Lod

Using Hotwayd with evolution to get hotmail and it seems to randoml download email again and again.

I saw somewhere on an Evolution forum that it may have something to do with the uid-cache file in ~/.evolution being corrupted.
Mine looks something like this:

hT7rWHP0SYqS1+cjeyHYIA==
5RblMPYAxVjHPXfreWBlHw==
j60Zoa1SAVKUH8b7pV7veg==
IdoYVrhw7DLK6wG+T7pI4w==
1Z5jnL+/LAG/b5aXiy/pjw==
Bc78u5aoAkLzZScqT2WO8w==
wcBupLRj/6ia0rrANOh1CQ==
hQX8FaFgs87hGpJOMFVoHw==
LypTDejneWr+2a12PNKgWg==

I don't think that's right, but my pop account looked the same anyway I think. Check it out in ~/.evolution/mail/pop/[your account folder]
Within the account folder there's a cache folder containing many more folders named numerically in hex, and within each folder are text files which in my case correspond to entries in the uid-cache file, but the format looks wrong - the == seems redundant at the end of each entry.

Both of the accounts are POP accounts.
Installed ThunderBird as a substitute, but I am not entirely satisfied, since SunBird/the ThunderBird calendar is horrible. "A quick overview" means that you can see which days there are appointments, but not what they are. And that is not too useful, if you wish to use it for business...

Yeah I went to Thunderbird as well. I cant seem to find how you make filters based on which account mail comes from though, I dont want to put them in folders I want to color code them like I did in Evolution.

Lod