dovecot - Jan 2011 - Duplicate messages when moving message to inbox

Hello,

I am encountering a strange problem but I'm not sure if it's a dovecot
problem or a Mac Mail problem.  The symptom is that if I move a message from a
folder into my inbox the message ends up showing up as a duplicate in Mac Mail. 
On the server it's still just one message.

This ONLY happens when I move a message IN to the inbox.  It does not happen
when I move a message out of my inbox into a folder, or when I move a message
between folders.

I can force a sync on Mac Mail and the duplicate is still there.  If however I
quit Mac Mail and start it up again, the duplicate disappears.

I can move one of the duplicated messages out of my inbox into a folder and then
back into my inbox repeatedly and end up with (apparently) an arbitrary number
of copies of the same message.  On the server, though, there is still only one
file.

Surely I'm not the first person to have encountered this behavior?  Does
anyone happen to know if this is a dovecot bug or a Mac Mail bug (or, hopefully,
a configuration problem)?

Thanks,
rg

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:04:07 -0800 Ron Garret wrote:
> I am encountering a strange problem but I'm not sure if it's a
dovecot problem or a Mac Mail problem.  The symptom is that if I move a message
from a folder into my inbox the message ends up showing up as a duplicate in Mac
Mail.  On the server it's still just one message.
Ron,
i just tried to repeat this on my Mac (OS 10.6.6) Mail 4.4 (1082) but i have
only one mail not a duplicate.
Maybe i misunderstood, but that is what i did: i moved with webmail
(squirrelmail) an email from the SENT-Folder to the INBOX and rechecked
mails on my mac. I get then just this newly moved mail, but not two of them.
If i move it back to the SENT Folder, shortly after, it disappears in Mac
Mail like it should.

I guess this is most likely a bug or misconfiguration in Mac Mail. This mail
client is really not perfect ;-)

Regards, franc walter