<quote who="Jon Biddell">

> Does anyone have a quick way of deleting duplicate messages in Evolution,
> based (I guess) on Subject, date and sender (or some better criteria) ?

Message-ID is the best criteria.

> Due to restoring a backup to the wrong directory (D'Oh !!!) I find I have
> several thousand duplicates.... And NO, the "delete" button is not a
> viable option....

Probably easiest to pipe through procmail/formail using the standard
procmail recipe for duplicate killing, ie.:

  :0 Wh: msgid.lock
  | $FORMAIL -D 8192 $HOME/.msgid.cache

- Jeff

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