Looks like this hint is already outdated;-)

Just yesterday, I released a completely new version of 'Mail Scripts' which is AppleScript Studio based. You won't be able to find the above mentioned line in the code any more (which was part of the 1.3.7 version which is still available for download - the ReadMe file for the old version includes a link for the sources of that version).

Andreas Amann

I installed these mail scripts and tried out the "Remove duplicates..." script, but unfortunately it generates an error (AppleEvent timed out -1712) while loading the mailbox hierarchy and Mail.app hangs after this. Have anybody had the same experience? I'm trying this running Panther on a Cube.

Yes, this is a known problem (however, it doesn't occur for everyone...)

I am currently re-writing the "Remove Duplicates" script completely and this issue should hopefully be gone with the new version (it is not a problem of the code used but some nasty AppleScript/AppleEvent caused race problem/race condition)

Andreas Amann

I've been running Mac OS X since it was released and never had any duplicates. But just after updating to 10.3.3, I got a ton of duplicates only in my POP account (not my .mac or anything else). I ran the script and it didn't find them. One thing I noticed was when I showed complete headers, the status of the newly-downloaded messages was "RO" and the status in the original message was blank (and the message IDs were identical). Is there something in the script which differentiates between duplicate messages with this weird Status header difference? Or can someone tell me what the deal is with these messages?

Thanks.

When I first installed Panther 10.3, Mail went nuts. The number of messages in my mailbox began rapidly changing before my eyes. I immediately called my web master, and he said everything appeared to be normal on his end, and that this problem was only with my account. He is a "Mac" man, and suggested that the problem was a bug with the new release. Before I ended the several minutes call, I had 107 messages in my mailbox!

The only setting I had changed in Mail after I had installed Panther, was selecting the box in: Mail Accounts>Advanced>Remove copy from server after retrieving a message>to "After one day".

I changed the setting from "After one day" to "Right away".

I thankfully haven't had this problem with Mail since.

I hope this helps someone. (:P)

Open the mail.app
Go to Preferences
Select accounts
Select your account
Go to advanced tab

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