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Fight with duplicate messages, They are IDENTICAL, why the bat does not recognize?
 
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Hi,

Can anyone from the developing staff tell me what are the criteria message must match to be recognizes as duplicates?

Some messages repeat 2,3 or 4 times, the are IDENTICAL in everything i can see, but the bat refuses to recognize them as duplicates.

Is there any way to automatically remove those extra messages via some kind of macro or something? I have 15000+ files, cannot do it by hand...

Maybe this is a bug?


Adam
 
 
 
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TB only recognizes duplicates as such when they have the same Message-ID and are located in the same folder.
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Is there any way to force TB to recognize duplicates which don't have the same Message-ID? Like "if_the subject_already_exist AND from_field_is_the_same AND to_field_is_the_same..."... ?

To get rid of this problem I had to export the whole folder as .eml files, run some deduplicating software on those .eml's and re-import all the stuff back to TB :(((
 
 
 
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No. TB knows that every message has its own unique message ID. That's not an assumption, that's a technical obligation stated in RFC2822. Therefore duplicate messages must have the same Message-ID header.
When you've got contacts who send you the same message with different Message-ID's then you'd do best to delete them on receipt.

Apart from from that, I've got several contacts (or robots) that send me periodic messages with the same subject, but the contents differ each time.
Some of these robots sometimes send me several messages a day and sometimes none. When you don't check for the Message-ID header those messages are unique apart from one item in the text body, even the rest of the text is the same. When you forget about the Message-ID header, the only way to compare those is comparing the full text and that would take quite a bit of memory and time.
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