how do i programatically eliminate duplicate emails?

[Guest]

I frequently send and receive emails that are essentially conversations.
They travel between a group of three or more participants and grow in length
and complexity over time. In the end there is one last email that contains
the accumulated text. This is the email I need to keep. All the others
could very well be deleted but I lack a programmatic tool/method.

Sometimes in the midst of an email chain, someone(s) might respond to me
only. I would like to be able to identify this "singularity" and
programmatically add its text, date time-stamp, etc... into the final email
for archiving purposes.

Does a tool like this exist?

 

[John Blessing]

I frequently send and receive emails that are essentially conversations.
They travel between a group of three or more participants and grow in
length
and complexity over time. In the end there is one last email that
contains
the accumulated text. This is the email I need to keep. All the others
could very well be deleted but I lack a programmatic tool/method.

Sometimes in the midst of an email chain, someone(s) might respond to me
only. I would like to be able to identify this "singularity" and
programmatically add its text, date time-stamp, etc... into the final
email
for archiving purposes.

Does a tool like this exist?

I very much doubt it does. These emails are not duplicates. They don't have
the same content. Computers are stupid - unless you can come up with a
simple rule to describe which one you want to delete ("e.g. all but the
latest one of a set of emails with the same subject" - but I'm not sure even
that would be correct), then you won't be able to automate the process.

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