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Rifty - 02 Mar 2006 23:54 GMT

I have the option to delete duplicate messages in 'Really Miscellaneous'
settings checked. There are duplicate messages coming in now and again
(I mean, exact copies) but they don't seem to be challenged by the
setting. Is there some way it has to be invoked manually? Any one else
with experience of this? it warns that it is slow, but... how slow?

Rifty

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Rifty - 03 Mar 2006 11:15 GMT

> I have the option to delete duplicate messages in 'Really Miscellaneous'
> settings checked. There are duplicate messages coming in now and again
> (I mean, exact copies) but they don't seem to be challenged by the
> setting. Is there some way it has to be invoked manually? Any one else
> with experience of this? it warns that it is slow, but... how slow?

OK - answering my own question - it zaps the duplicates when you close
Eudora. I just noticed that one that was there when I closed it had
disappeared when I opened it again. The duplicate's not in the Trash so
it must zap it on the way out, not when you re-open it.

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Julian Y. Koh - 07 Mar 2006 03:36 GMT

> OK - answering my own question - it zaps the duplicates when you close
> Eudora. I just noticed that one that was there when I closed it had
> disappeared when I opened it again. The duplicate's not in the Trash so
> it must zap it on the way out, not when you re-open it.

Yeah, this functionality broke somewhere around Eudora 4. Maybe Eudora 5.
Either way, I've been complaining about it for ages.

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Guenther - 07 Mar 2006 05:17 GMT

> > I have the option to delete duplicate messages in 'Really Miscellaneous'
> > settings checked. There are duplicate messages coming in now and again
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> disappeared when I opened it again. The duplicate's not in the Trash so
> it must zap it on the way out, not when you re-open it.

This feature is quite helpfull, when you work with two copies of
Eudora, one at home and one on the Laptop. Just transfer the contents
of mailboxes IN and OUT (you have to change the filenames of the two
files to do that) from one system to the other and you get a lot of
copies in your mailboxes. Just close the mailboxes IN and OUT, wait a
few seconds and reopen IN and OUT: All copies are gone.
Copy these new files back to the first system and apply the same
process: You end up with identical mailboxes.

Guenther

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Rifty - 07 Mar 2006 13:29 GMT

> This feature is quite helpfull, when you work with two copies of
> Eudora, one at home and one on the Laptop.

Yes, I have a similar setup to that and I can see this would reconcile
the two mailboxes perfectly. That could indeed be helpful in some
circumstances. I use a lazier more cumbersome work-around to guarantee
that I have a copy of both systems' key mailboxes available if somehow
there is an email that isn't on the one I have open at the time. I find
that I need to access the copy of the other so rarely it's not worth the
effort to reconcile them in my case, but the time could come when it is,
so thanks for the elegant tip!

Rifty

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David Morrison - 01 Apr 2006 00:06 GMT

> > > I have the option to delete duplicate messages in 'Really Miscellaneous'
> > > settings checked. There are duplicate messages coming in now and again
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> Copy these new files back to the first system and apply the same
> process: You end up with identical mailboxes.

A minor clarification which I did not realise from Guenther's
description...

The removal of duplicate messages only occurs when the messages are all
in the same mailbox. Duplicate messages scattered throughout a number of
mailboxes are not touched.

Cheers

David

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