Re: Every retrieval a duplicate
Max Zettlmeißl <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 3:14 PM, Larry Fahnoe <[email protected]> wrote: > My guess is that the duplicates are due to you telling getmail to retrieve > from both GMail's Inbox and All Mail. All Mail contains all your messages, > Inbox is a virtual folder that contains only unread messages. Once a > message is read it is removed from Inbox, but stays in All Mail. > While your analysis of the general problem is correct, some of your explanation is incorrect. Even when mail has been read it remains in the inbox. Every email remains in the inbox unless it is classified as spam, deleted or archived. Archiving a message (manually or via filters) removes the Inbox label.