On or near 7/23/04 10:20 PM, Marcel Vachon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > Hello, > > Does anyone know of an application that kills duplicate messages? For some > reason when I connect to my mail server and I am running remotely entourage > has downloaded any message that is on the server AGAIN, even if I already > had it on my iBook! Same subject, date, message, etc, the same message and > having to sort through the messages twice (or thrice in this case) has > become a major league pain in the butt. > > Any help here would be really appreciated. > Marcel
Try searching the archives of this list. I sent a script to do this to the list a week or two ago, called "Delete Dupes". Well, I did the search for you, and it was more like seven weeks ago...but just a note to anyone reading this. Try searching the archives before you ask questions. Often, it's been asked before, and the answer is there waiting for you. archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > Re: Hundreds of redundant messages (4 times in less than a month). > From: Allen Watson > Subject: Re: Hundreds of redundant messages (4 times in less than a month). > Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:49:06 -0700 > > My point is, you may never figure out why it > is doing that; it's a peculiarity of your setup, and not a general problem > faced by Entourage users. So, in your case, I think the best thing is to know > how to deal with it. I have an AppleScript that I've modified from one written > by Barry Wainwright. Barry's script eliminates all duplicates in a given > folder by comparing the message IDs; it is very fast. I modified it to (a) > always delete the _most recent_ version of a duplicated message (because I may > have read or replied to the older one), and (b) to cycle through all my mail > folders (I have about 70). If you like I'll send you a copy off list; let me > know. (I will also post it to my website--see below--real soon, named "Delete > dupes all folders".) Look in /Scripts/Entourage OS X&2004. Of course, this > script depends on existing duplicate messages. If you download a message, > delete it, and re-download it, the script won't find it as a duplicate. Nor > will it find duplicates which exist in different folders; the dupes have to > reside in the same folder to be detected. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allen_a_watson/FileSharing3.html> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
