Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / September 2006

I already have this setting enabled. It doesn't work for outgoing
messages since it looks at the message-id. However, I found a script by
Andres Starr (?) for Eudora 3:

tell application "Eudora"
-- name the application exactly if you are running from the finder.
-- Recommend you run it from OSAMenu
 set Report to 0
 set Box to name of front window
 set boxCount to count every message of mailbox Box
 repeat with n from 1 to (boxCount - 1)
   --beep
   set aa to get field "date" of message n of mailbox Box
   set bb to get field "date" of message (n + 1) of mailbox Box
   if bb = aa then
     set label of message (n + 1) of mailbox Box to 15 -- lowest user
label
     set priority of message (n + 1) of mailbox Box to 200 -- lowest
     set Report to Report + 1
     beep
   end if
 end repeat
end tell
set Report to (Report as string) & " duplicates marked"
display dialog Report

but it fails on this line:

   set aa to get field "date" of message n of mailbox Box

Any ideas why?

Having done this little exercise a few times, the removal of duplicates
appears to happen whenever you open (or maybe close) a mailbox. Anyway,
opening it and closing it will clear out any duplicates. (BTW, the
setting suggest this is slow - I have had it permanently enabled for
months and have not noticed any slowness.)

This will change the sort order to Who, with the messages roughly in
date order. A better way is to click on the Who column, then Shift/click
on the Date column. This produces a true subsort by date for each sender.

Cheers

David