[Coco] How do to remove duplicate Mail

[Ryan Pritchard]

I just use my gmail account with IMAP enabled to do the removal of duplicates.  I imported years of e-mail from multiple backups, each time I moved the e-mail from my local copy to an IMAP folder (or as Google calls them Labels) any duplicates were automatically removed.  All that was left were the unique messages that were from each additional archive and none of the duplicates that would have occurred as theses were snap shots, and there would have been lots of duplicates.

Works on all platforms that have mail clients that support IMAP, no plug-ins necessary.  The following link should take you to a post I had made on Slashdot a couple of years ago.

http://slashdot.org/journal/209653/Use-GMail-to-eliminate-duplicate-e-mail

Regards,

Ryan Pritchard
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On 2010-04-25, at 2:33 PM, briang wrote:

> briang wrote:
>> In the process of moving mail folders around and combining mail from laptop
>> to desktop, I have duplicate mail. It's the same message, Date and time.
>> So is their a way to scan and remove the copies under Linux, Windows XP or
> 
>> Reply in private. OK.
>> 
> After posting this message I found a add on utility on the Thunderbird web
> site. It looks like it's for windows only. So I need to find one for Linux.
> 
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