Re: Delete duplicate messages?

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 02/26/2003 Emmanuel wrote:
> Le 2003.02.26 14:31, Martin Klaffenboeck a écrit :
>> Hello,
>> 
>> How can I create a filter, which filters out all mails where there 
>> are more than one in the same mbox?  There should be only one copy 
>> left.
>> 
> 
> Hmm from the filter point of view, there is, as it is now, no way to 
> achieve that. But I think Peter was talking about doing that during 
> threading.

Just committed to cvs HEAD: Mailbox => _Remove Duplicates.

This new entry on the Mailbox menu finds all messages with duplicated 
message-ids, and removes all but one. If any of the duplicates has the 
`replied' flag set, that one is kept.

If like me you're a little leery of tools that go around removing 
messages:

- *uncheck* hide-deleted, and the new tool will expand threads to 
expose every message it removes, so you can make sure you really want 
to remove them before committing the changes.

- If you have hide-deleted *checked*, it simply removes them with no 
expanding or collapsing (other than those triggered by any required 
rethreading).

Enjoy!

Peter