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Thunderbird creates duplicates of other inbox folders on Local Folders

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Santuzzo
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Hi,

there is something odd happening with my Thunderbird: it creates duplicates of other inbox folders on 'Local Folders'. This seems to happen at random and just by itself. Then I delete the folder, but a few days later there is another duplicated inbox folder on Local Folders. It's very strange, it is some inbox on one of my e-mail accounts and it's being duplicated as inbox in 'Local Folders'.

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but just as extra info: a few weeks ago I re-installed my OS (Win 7) and I copied the Thunderbird profile folder in order to keep all my folders, e-mails and settings.

I hope someone can help me solve this issue. Or could this be some kind of bug maybe?

thanks, Lars

Hi, there is something odd happening with my Thunderbird: it creates duplicates of other inbox folders on 'Local Folders'. This seems to happen at random and just by itself. Then I delete the folder, but a few days later there is another duplicated inbox folder on Local Folders. It's very strange, it is some inbox on one of my e-mail accounts and it's being duplicated as inbox in 'Local Folders'. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but just as extra info: a few weeks ago I re-installed my OS (Win 7) and I copied the Thunderbird profile folder in order to keep all my folders, e-mails and settings. I hope someone can help me solve this issue. Or could this be some kind of bug maybe? thanks, Lars

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amanchesterman
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Are these POP accounts? I'm wondering if somehow you have the global inbox enabled for at least one of them: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Global_Inbox Have a look at your Server Settings, especially the 'advanced' options.

Santuzzo
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amanchesterman said

Are these POP accounts? I'm wondering if somehow you have the global inbox enabled for at least one of them: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Global_Inbox Have a look at your Server Settings, especially the 'advanced' options.

Thank you very much for your reply. Yes, all my accounts are POP accounts. I will look into it and post back.

Santuzzo
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Santuzzo said

amanchesterman said
Are these POP accounts? I'm wondering if somehow you have the global inbox enabled for at least one of them: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Global_Inbox Have a look at your Server Settings, especially the 'advanced' options.

Thank you very much for your reply. Yes, all my accounts are POP accounts. I will look into it and post back.

Well, I just checked, and those setting seem to be fine. All are set to have pop e-mail downloaded to the inbox of each particular account.

What is also odd, when these duplicated folders appear on Local Folder: they have duplicates of e-mails in them, so those are not even new e-mails.

Santuzzo
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anybody else? I am still having this issue, the same inbox folder (including its sub-folders) just got duplicated as an inbox in Local Folders again.... I keep deleting it but a few days later there's a new duplicate......

any ideas what could be the cause of this and how to fix this?

thanks!