Duplicate e-mail messages

[jnoland767]

Hello everyone: I was just wondering if you guys could give me a recommendation of sort. I have mac os x 10.4.5 (tiger) and I'm running mac mail 2.0.5. I use the mac mail client to pop mail from my work to my laptop but I seem to continually receive duplicate messages. I haven't gotten an official answer from apple but from other articles I've read, they mostly seem to agree that I should change from POP services to IMAP services. What do you guys think or is there a fix for the duplication message problem?

Jerrald

 

[ra3ndy]

When I get duplicate messages, here's what typically happens. Mail will download the message(s), but briefly lose contact and be unable to send confirmation to the server that it received the mail, thus start the whole process over again.

IMAP is the best way I've found to take care of this. Plus, IMAP has the great added benefit of letting you have your email account on several different computers all accessing the same email (since IMAP stores messages on the server).

Hope that helps.