unable to unlink all deleted messages ERR

[weezergal]

Hey,

I'm using Eudora 5.1 on my PC. I have had no problems with Eudora before, but after just getting a new email account and ISP I get two copies of every email in Eudora, and an error message saying that it was 'unable to unlink all deleted messages'. When I check my email on the ISP website there is only one copy of every email, and so apparently the problem is something to do with Eudora.

I have other personalites set up in Eudora and when mail is downloaded with these addresses, only one copy comes down.

I find this very bizarre, and would really appreciate some help.

Thanks.

 

[KeysCL]

RE:
"I'm using Eudora 5.1 on my PC. I have had no problems with Eudora before, but after just getting a new email account and ISP I get two copies of every email in Eudora, and an error message saying that it was 'unable to unlink all deleted messages'."

I'm using Eudora 6.1, paid version, and my own domain. I've had no problems with normal mailboxes. However, when I set up an alias on the domain, referring to a primary mailbox, I get this problem in Eudora.
I have to set up a personality in Eudora for the alias, so that I can have it look as if I'm mailing someone from that alias. I also have a mailbox for the alias. No matter what kind of filtering, return address, properties or anything else, I end up with two messages: One to the alias, and the duplicate to the referring name.
If the main mail address is MisterKeys@domain, and my alias is "Keys@domain," any mail coming to the server for "Keys," should be picked up by MisterKeys. But no matter how I try to access that mail from Eudora, I get duplicates and the "ERR Unable to unlink all deleted messages." The domain management and help offer no solution or even explanation of how the alias is working.

 

[uvguy]

From eudora support site:

This could be due to multiple personalities checking the same POP account, or it could be caused by a corrupted Leave Mail On Server file.


To check for multiple Personalities that access the same POP account, click on Tools: Personalities. In the Personalities window, right click on a personality and select Properties and see what the "login name" is on the Generic Properties tab and also what the server is on the "Incoming mail" tab. If two personalities have the exact same settings, don't check mail with both of them. You can remove personalities if you don't really need multiple personalities for the same account. If you meant to have multiple personalities for the same account (for sending with various aliases or alternate return addresses), then go to the Generic Properties and uncheck "check mail" for all but one of the Personalities that access the same POP account.


If you do not have multiple personalities checking the same account, close out of Eudora and delete the LMOS.DAT file. This file is located in the Spool directory and keeps a list of all the messages that you have downloaded from the server in the past. It will be recreated the next time you check for mail (note: if you are leaving mail on the server, Eudora will download ALL the mail that is there on the first mail check after deleting the LMOS file).


Also, you may want to double check the messages to be sure they are actually duplicates. If the message-Id header is different for your message copies, then they are actually different messages - this implies that the messages was sent to you multiple times.