Binary package hint: mail-notification
I use this task-bar monitor to tell me every 15 minutes whether I've new messages at GMail. About half of the email notifications I get, however, are for messages that are days or weeks old, rather than just the new ones. I can see no pattern or sense in which/when these messages are reread by the monitor as new.
Once I've caught up with mail, the correct behaviour would be to simply show me new messages as they arrive.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mail-notification 5.4.dfsg.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 9 13:03:33 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mail-notification
Still a problem under Maverick. It turns out it's exactly half of my messages: I've realised that I get a duplicate notification for one seemingly-random old message for every time I delete a message from my inbox.
Since I use alpine (with the infamous non-Gnu maildir patch) to delete messages, and this news gets to Google through offlineimap, I guess there are a few places where the trouble/
Maybe for some reason, some message ids are being revised?