How to handle duplicated email messages
April Gonzales
loonycookie@gmail.com
Andre Klapper
ak-47@gmx.net
Rafael Fontenelle
rafaelff@gnome.org 2021

# Duplicate emails get downloaded

# Removing duplicate emails

To remove duplicate emails in a folder, select multiple messages (or select all messages in a folder by clicking Edit Select All or pressing Ctrl A) and click Message Remove Duplicate Messages.

# Reasons

Downloading duplicate emails may be due to one of the following reasons:

There are several copies of the same message in the mailbox

Evolution is having a problem with the UIDL extension.

The cache files located at $HOME/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/ are not writable.