I take it that Edit > Select Duplicates is no help? I find that this
command is enabled when focus is on an item in the Mailboxes list. If
you’re concerned with finding messages in different folders, you can
select All Messages.
I’ve never heard of an “unknown” folder appearing, so I can’t
help diagnose that. Am I right in guessing that this is an IMAP folder?
It helps to distinguish IMAP folders from smart folders (“mailboxes”
in MailMate parlance) when describing a problem.
In the Find search parameters, I see nothing about matching for groups
of duplicate messages (E.G. matching multiple equal dates, subjects).
The parameter of a match between messages seems foreign to MailMates
parameters.
The first method that comes to mind is sorting the set of messages by
date or subject, and then scanning for duplicates manually or by using
“Select Duplicates.” But I admit this might not be practical if you
have more than a few thousand messages to search.
Henry Seiden wrote (at 9:22 AM on Sunday, December 15, 2024):
John,
Thanks for your comments. Here’s what happened… (longer story)
Manually found pairs of emails with the same subject and date/time and
inspected them. They were identical. Then found several more. What
happened further, if that there were a significant number of email in
an archive folder in MailMate mailbox from a known source that were in
an “unknown” folder not related apparently to any source account.
Didn’t know this could even happen, yet it did.
The messages were actually from the se=me sender account but sound up
there somehow (in error). So I figured it best to simply move them
back to the correct (Archive Folder) manually.
Then I found that many of those were somehow duplicates of existing
emails, some were not. Therefore began looking for ways to identify
(in MailMate) which were subject and date/time matches. A few found
manually since were triples, too. Hence the question.
In the Find search parameters, I see nothing about matching for groups
of duplicate messages (E.G. matching multiple equal dates, subjects).
The parameter of a match between messages seems foreign to MailMates
parameters.
However I saw workarounds using external file editors. I am looking
into those options as I think this is a missing feature in MailMate.
Respectfully,
Henry Seiden
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On 15 Dec 2024, at 12:05, John Cooper wrote:
Henry Seiden wrote (at 6:30 AM on Sunday, December 15, 2024):
Recently I found several duplicate emails with the same subject and
receive dates, so would like find the batch of similar email, via a
search for them either globally or in a particular source mailbox.
In MM’s utility language don’t see a way to select that in the
Find (Menu>Edit>Find>Find Messages) search criteria.
Can you clarify what you mean by “the batch of similar email”?
You said you already found “several duplicate emails,” but it’s
not clear whether all these emails were identical or whether you mean
several pairs of duplicates. What are the search criteria you’re
having trouble specifying?
Not sure I can help — I just want to understand the problem.
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