Incoming messages issue

Hi,
On my MBP with the latest Leopard version on and 5 accounts enabled, mail gets 800 + incoming emails every time I launch it.
It seems it is downloading them each time from MobileMe.
Thanks in advance for the help.

Hedi,
Please confirm that your MobileMe account is set up as IMAP, and not POP? Also, confirm how many accounts are POP vs IMAP?
Mulder is not as familiar with Mail 3.x as with the earlier Mail 2.x. In Mail 3.x, the MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded file is a single file at the root level of the Mail folder, and is named MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3. In the earlier version, this file (with a 2 and not 3) was located within each POP account folder, but not for any IMAP. If you convert from Tiger to Leopard, then the POP account folders may contain a copy of the MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded 2 file, but it will not have been modified since the upgrade, and can be deleted.
With any IMAP account, the messages are not downloaded per se, but rather are accessed on the server, and a copy downloaded as each one is opened. However, you have the option in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced of downloading and keeping a copy of each message for use with Offline. In this situation, when next online, those copies kept on your hard drive are synced to those that are kept on the server, and any changes (such as deletions) reflected on the server.
With this background, answer the questions raised in the first paragraph.
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cool, I'm not alone...
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Installing Mail.app and the /Library/Mail/ folder again from the 10.5.0 DVD using Pacifist.
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And thanks for the confirmation: Yes, often difficult, and completely unworkable in some cases.
To my surprise, I've been able to find very few people reporting similiar observations. Very little about this issue at all on the web.
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