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It happens very often that I have multiple copies of the same email in the
same folder. The most frequent reason is that one copy ist sent directly to
me and another one (or more) by forward from other recipients. Another reason
can be that the email has manually been saved in a folder more than once
(then all other copies should be in "deleted" state but sometimes deleted
emails are ressurected for various reasons).

Whatever the reason, I’d like to know a simple way to discover that several
emails in the same folder have the same Msg-Id, and then to delete all but
one of them, preferably keeping the shortest one (= the one with the fewest
forwards). I do not want the deletion to be fully automatic because there are
situations where I want to see which copies have reached me.

My current solution is to search for the "Return-Path"-Header that
appears most often in duplicated emails. This covers many cases but is
a bit clumsy.

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Helmut Richter

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