RSS messages downloaded multiple times

C Rygg

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Oct 6, 2007, 4:15:08 AM10/6/07

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Hi!

Until recently, I have been using Opera to manage my RSS feeds, but
yesterday I decided to try Thunderbird. I have quite a few RSS feeds, and
I moved most of them to Thunderbird. In Opera, there was never a problem
with the feeds, but in Thunderbird I have a problem with some of them. The
troublesome feeds are all from the same source (finn.no).

I've set Thunderbird up to download messages every 5 minutes, and the
problem is that it always downloads every message - even those it
downloaded last time. I currently have 13250 unread RSS messages - from
feeds I usually get about 10 per day on.

I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.6. What might be the problem, and is there a
fix? I assume finn.no might be doing something wrong, but it has worked
fine in Opera... Anyone?

CR

Bed

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Oct 6, 2007, 4:57:43 AM10/6/07

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Welcome to the Thunderbird RSS duplication issue.

It seems to happen to random rss feeds - and when it does, I have been
unable to get it to not do it. Deleting them, re-adding them, rebuilding
indexes, nothing I do fixes the issue.

There is a *long* outstanding bug on this issue, but attempts to fix it
seem to be for naught - I think there are multiple causes which also
depend on location. The addons.mozilla rss feed for new thunderbird
extensions does it for me - without fail, when my laptop is at work. As
soon as I get home, it stops the duplicates.

I've given up that it will get fixed.

Larry Rappaport

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Oct 6, 2007, 12:16:31 PM10/6/07

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In the sentence above:

> The addons.mozilla rss feed for new thunderbird
> extensions does it for me - without fail, when my laptop is at work.

I don't understand. Which extension? Does that extension solve the
problem? Thanks.
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Larry
rapp at lmr dot com

Bed

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Oct 6, 2007, 8:06:27 PM10/6/07

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Larry Rappaport wrote:
>
> In the sentence above:
>
> > The addons.mozilla rss feed for new thunderbird
> > extensions does it for me - without fail, when my laptop is at work.
>
> I don't understand. Which extension? Does that extension solve the
> problem? Thanks.

No extension, the rss feed is "for new thunderbird extensions"... ie

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/browse/type:1/cat:all/sort:updated/format:rss

Greg Lockwood

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Oct 7, 2007, 10:18:31 PM10/7/07

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The easiest workaround to this problem I have found is to get one of the
extensions that solve this problem by automatically searching for
duplicate messages and allowing you to remove all but one.

A few exist to my knowledge, I currently use and like one called "Remove
Duplicate Messages (Alternate) v0.1.5". Search for it, and install it,
then just right-click on any folder and select Remove Duplicates... and
2 seconds later, all subfolders will have been processed and your
duplicates removed (once you click to confirm in the pop up dialog).
Easy and works well.

A small price to pay for this persistent but annoying bug in otherwise
great software.

HTH,

~Greg out.

Larry Rappaport

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Oct 8, 2007, 10:35:13 AM10/8/07

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Thanks, Greg,

I had used the other extension, but it didn't work on RSS feeds. Thanks.

Bed

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Oct 10, 2007, 7:54:46 PM10/10/07

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I'm really interested in trying to track down the cause of my
duplication issue with the above feed, as I have a stable replication
environment at work.

This page
(http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#General)
details how to turn on debug logging for IMAP, POP, NNTP, or SMTP, but
not RSS feeds. Does anyone know how I can turn on the debug logs for RSS ?

Cheers,
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Ron K.

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Oct 10, 2007, 8:12:51 PM10/10/07

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Check out the equivalent page for Firefox and see if it deals with the RSS
feed protocols. I think the Tb is using the same backend code that Fx devs
created for Fx, just adapted to the Tb UI.

--
Ron K.