remove duplicate emails

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Is there a freeware utility to remove duplicate emails from Outlook Express
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Joosie
 
Don't know of a program, here is a possible way to stop them in the 1st
place.

Try this, open up OE.

Tools > Accounts > Properties > Advanced > Server Timeouts, set at 2
minutes 30 seconds.
Cick Apply & OK.
 
Same problem for me, but in Thunderbird. I have an auto-start app to
download my email & while I was away for a week TBird downloaded the
same emails over & over. Stupidly, I forgot to re-set the auto-delete
to keep the emails on my server for a week, so now I'm forced to delete
one-by-one.

Any suggestions? Or should I post this as a separate topic?
 
joosie said:
Is there a freeware utility to remove duplicate emails from Outlook Express
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I don't use MSOE, so I'm maybe not the best qualified to answer. However,
seeing not much suggested here for the task (and not knowing whether you
might have also tried an MSOE group), I'll present the steps of my similar
project, which I'm speculating could well be of help.

My project was taking on the deletion of duplicate mails for someone who
was running $MSN Explorer as their email client. This thing, like MSOE
evidently, it lacked an inbuilt "eliminate duplicates" function.

Your steps with MSOE are probably similar:

[1]
First it was necessary to export the mails to disk, as individual *.eml files.
On that MSN software, it did not have a logical export command. It required
this weird method of dragging messages from the interface of the program into
Windows's Explorer folders.

I vaguely recall that you need to use this same method with MSOE (?)
If you don't see a bulk "export to .eml files" command in your ver MSOE,
then be prepped to do the weird drag thingy.

(Btw, I have to hope optimistically for your sake that it's not a long
and painful process, the way it was for me on that MSN Explorer + WinME
machine.)

[2]
Once all the mails are on HDD, then run a dupes checker. I used CloneSpy.
It was lightning-swift, strong, accurate. Perhaps CloneSpy's interface
takes initial learning; you could alternatively ask for a recommend on
simpler dupes checker. One which meets the basic criteria needed here:
search + delete identical files according to content, ignoring filenames.

(By the way, don't worry about choosing between filenames as they exist
on disk. When the *.emls are brought back into the mail client, the subject
headers are correct, and the disk filenames are ignored.)

[3]
Next: delete the original mails from the interface of the program. (You've
already exported everything to disk, so you don't want the redundancy when
you import mail back in.)

[4]
Finally: import the files from HDD, from the folders where you'd eliminated
the dupes, back into folders in your mail client.

(To perform the import action with MSN Explorer, my memory says I had to
again do the drag-thing. If you don't see an import option on MSOE menu
for mass import, then well, you know the drill.)

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Not Forget: Back up at every juncture in the process, in order to feel secure
about things.
 
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