[kdepim-users] [Kde-pim] why multiple email in my INBOX?

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 10 February 2008 20:41:09 Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:47:45AM +0100, Ingo Kl?cker wrote:
> > Please send user questions to the kdepim-users mailing list.
> >
> > On Saturday 09 February 2008, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > Hi People,
> > >
> > > Can anybody explain what I did that in the past few days I've been
> > > getting several copies of each incoming email?   Thanks in advance
> > > for any insights.
> >
> > If you are using IMAP and filter your mail with KMail then this is most
> > likely caused by a miscommunication between KMail and your IMAP server,
> > i.e. the IMAP server does not properly delete the messages KMail has
> > downloaded (for filtering), marked as deleted, and then uploaded again
> > as new message (after filtering).
> >
> > Disabling filtering your incoming mail with KMail should fix the
> > problem.
>
> 	Sounds v probable, because I was indeed clicking around somee
> 	days ago.  But where exactly, do I click to disable??  EDIT, FILE,
> 	VIEW, MESSAGE, TOOLS?   I do see some drop-downs about
> 	"filtering, especiallly the ones that I don't think were there
> 	last week about marking mail as Spam or Not-Spam.  IIf this is
> 	right, then YES!!  But again, how do I undo this??
>
Gary, spam filtering like that works well on local files, but not on IMAP 
files.  Quite simply, delete those filters.  Spam filtering is much better 
done at server level when you use IMAP mail.  I use bogofilter in 
my .procmailrc and find it works beautifully.

Anne
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