On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 08:11, Don Gould wrote: > Can you tell me what, if any, OSS GUI based mail systems do have duplicate > checking as a standard option.
None that I know of - on the other hand, if your message base were accessible from a unix command-line you would be able to use tools to strip out the duplicates. Although the problem may be at your mail provider, you would be able to download all the messages to your workstation with (fetch|get|got)mail, de-duplicate them, then re-inject them into your ISPs folders with IMAP. However, if your mission was to reduce the bandwidth taken by retrieving them all, this wouldn't help. > GNU/GPL only please. There are plenty of other licenses in use, besides the venerable GPL. For example, Mozilla, which includes a very good mail reader, is issued under the MPL (Mozilla Publis License). Your constraint would exclude Mozilla from consideration, if we were to take it literally :-) > Please keep to mail clients. I know and have considered what can be done in > the mail servers to fix this issue. I have already taken some action this > morning to reduce this problem with assistance from my providers. Sometimes we'd like to educate you about possibilities that you *might* not have considered, rather than give you a "how to fix your specific problem today" sort of answer ... If you already know everything that's possible at the mailserver, I would imagine that you already know everything that's possible at the client end. Of course, if we can't suggest a simple solution, will this justify you sticking to Outlook? Because neither Outlook nor OSS/* will fix the problem, there's no point switching to OSS/* ?
