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BlueBull's avatar
BlueBull
Level 4
11 years ago

Duplicate emails in EV Search after PST Ingestion

Hi,   I have run a PST ingestion using EVPM. Some users had 5 to 10 PST files. After the PST ingestion, if the same message is found in different PST files, EV shows the same message multiple t...
  • TonySterling's avatar
    11 years ago

    Duplicates are created because the email is in different PST's.  This is totally expected behavior.

    Very similar behavior as described here:

    Importing the same PST multiple times creates duplicate emails in a user's mailbox archive.

    Article:TECH66230  |  Created: 2010-02-08  |  Updated: 2011-07-01  |  Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH66230

    Cause

    By design, every time a PST is imported into an archive, Enterprise Vault (EV) will import all eligible messages even if they already exist.  When performing searches for archived email, duplicate results will be returned.