I just received my new iMac, and spent part of today setting it up. All
went well, except for one thing. When I set up the mail program
(MobileMe), every email was downloaded twice, once marked as unread, and
once as read. Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplicates? I
started to do that manually, but there are over 1400 duplicates. Any
suggestions are greatly appreciated 

-- 
Sent from Dave's iPad

In article 
<415019058304055549.934841dfritzin-nospam.hotmail.com@news.eternal-septe
mber.org>,
 Dave Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:

> I just received my new iMac, and spent part of today setting it up. All
> went well, except for one thing. When I set up the mail program
> (MobileMe), every email was downloaded twice, once marked as unread, and
> once as read. Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplicates? I
> started to do that manually, but there are over 1400 duplicates. Any
> suggestions are greatly appreciated

1. Create a "Smart Mailbox" containing the condition "Message is Unread".
2. Select the newly created mailbox.
3. Select all messages (Cmd-A).
4. Click delete.

-- 
Tom Stiller

PGP fingerprint =  5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3  7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF

In article 
<415019058304055549.934841dfritzin-nospam.hotmail.com@news.eternal-septe
mber.org>,
 Dave Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:

> I just received my new iMac, and spent part of today setting it up. All
> went well, except for one thing. When I set up the mail program
> (MobileMe), every email was downloaded twice, once marked as unread, and
> once as read. Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplicates? I
> started to do that manually, but there are over 1400 duplicates. Any
> suggestions are greatly appreciated

See my reply to your other post in another news group.

In the future, you might want to consider refraining from multi-posting. 
; ) If you send the same message to multiple news groups separately, it 
forces the rest of us to download your message multiple times. Also, it 
means if someone replies to one of your posts in one news group, the 
other places you posted the message will not see that reply! This is 
known as "multi-posting", and is generally regarded as inconsiderate.

If you want to post the same message to multiple news groups, please 
include all of the news groups, separated by commas, in the "Newsgroups" 
line of a single post, like so:

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps

This way the message is simultaneously posted to all specified news 
groups. More importantly, when someone replies to your message in one 
group, that reply is automatically sent in all other news groups to 
which you sent the post! This allows all involved to see the entire 
conversation, no matter which news group from which  they access your 
post. This is called "cross-posting" and is the proper way to do it.

-- 
Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me.
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM
filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting
messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google
Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts.

JR

In article <jollyroger-238346.11364521082010@news.individual.net>,
 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> In article 
> <415019058304055549.934841dfritzin-nospam.hotmail.com@news.eternal-septe
> mber.org>,
>  Dave Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just received my new iMac, and spent part of today setting it up. All
> > went well, except for one thing. When I set up the mail program
> > (MobileMe), every email was downloaded twice, once marked as unread, and
> > once as read. Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplicates? I
> > started to do that manually, but there are over 1400 duplicates. Any
> > suggestions are greatly appreciated
> 
> See my reply to your other post in another news group.
> 
> In the future, you might want to consider refraining from multi-posting. 
> ; ) If you send the same message to multiple news groups separately, it 
> forces the rest of us to download your message multiple times. Also, it 
> means if someone replies to one of your posts in one news group, the 
> other places you posted the message will not see that reply! This is 
> known as "multi-posting", and is generally regarded as inconsiderate.
> 
> If you want to post the same message to multiple news groups, please 
> include all of the news groups, separated by commas, in the "Newsgroups" 
> line of a single post, like so:
> 
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps
> 
> This way the message is simultaneously posted to all specified news 
> groups. More importantly, when someone replies to your message in one 
> group, that reply is automatically sent in all other news groups to 
> which you sent the post! This allows all involved to see the entire 
> conversation, no matter which news group from which  they access your 
> post. This is called "cross-posting" and is the proper way to do it.

My apologies-I don't normally do that. However, I posted from my iPad, 
using the application NewsTap. Unfortunately, I was not able to find a 
way to post to more than one newsgroup at a time. 

Sorry.

In article <tom_stiller-FFEC78.10475921082010@news.individual.net>,
 Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article 
> <415019058304055549.934841dfritzin-nospam.hotmail.com@news.eternal-septe
> mber.org>,
>  Dave Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just received my new iMac, and spent part of today setting it up. All
> > went well, except for one thing. When I set up the mail program
> > (MobileMe), every email was downloaded twice, once marked as unread, and
> > once as read. Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplicates? I
> > started to do that manually, but there are over 1400 duplicates. Any
> > suggestions are greatly appreciated
> 
> 1. Create a "Smart Mailbox" containing the condition "Message is Unread".
> 2. Select the newly created mailbox.
> 3. Select all messages (Cmd-A).
> 4. Click delete.

Worked perfectly. Thank you very much. I should have thought of that.