Re: duplicates with offlineimap+dovecot

[Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>]

Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp@xemacs.org> writes:

>>>>>> "Julien" == Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
> Julien> I have Gnus doing some splitting (including the detection of
> Julien> duplicates) on the local IMAP folders and some spam
> Julien> autodetection. Since the duplicates are not synced back to the
> Julien> remote server, could it be a problem with Gnus accessing the
> Julien> same message a second time and thinking it's a duplicate of the
> Julien> first one ?
>
> I have been experiencing a related problem for some time a direct
> connection to a dovecot IMAP server.  In my case Gnus performs the local
> splitting but occasionally does not delete the message from the INBOX.
> A second fetch splits the messages again (causing duplicates) and
> generally deletes the messages from the INBOX.

That would explain what I'm experiencing. I'm not sure Dave's suggestion
of using mbsync instead of offlineimap would fix it but maybe the dbox
format for dovecot would do ? I'm not too eager to play with it though,
my current setup took me long enough to come up with.

> This is with a month old copy of gnus from git.

Mine might be older than that. I'll try upgrading and see if it
improves.

Thanks, I'm somewhat relieved to know I'm not alone with this problem.

Julien.