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Thousands of duplicate emails

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:59:48 +0200

Thousands of duplicate emails how can I remove them? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Not sure why the quote function did not work.

> George
> ritlabs cant do this ie allow you to choose what paramenters you use to compare
this is not an industrial email client

George, is there such a thing as an "industrial email client"?

Was this a bit tongue-in-cheek?

(I could see more sophistication about duplicates in mail archive programs, but I never heard of it in clients like Eudora, Outlook, Pegasus, Becky, etc.)

Steven
18 January 2017 15:59:48, Steven Avery.

Thousands of duplicate emails

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:38:01 +0200

Thousands of duplicate emails how can I remove them? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Since you wrote that during backup/restore a time shift in a few hours appear in message, one possibility of this problem is that one of the computers that take part in synchronization (or backup/restore) don't have time zone information set correctly while The Bat! keeps message dates in UTC (Universal Time Coordinated). If the time zone is not set correctly, then The Bat! is unable to calculate UTC message date/time correctly. To make sure that your computer have correct time configuration: (1) make sure that time zone is correctly set in Windows "date and time settings"; (2) synchronize time over internet, never update time manually, and after you have synchronized time over internet - please check whether time in Windows shows correct time after synchronization - and if it shows correct time, then The Bat! will calculate UTC properly.
16 January 2017 16:38:01, Maxim Masiutin.

Thousands of duplicate emails

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:33:35 +0200

Thousands of duplicate emails how can I remove them? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
The "Delete Duplicates" item of the "Folder" menu compares messages within a folder and delete duplicates. Messages are considered duplicates if their "From", "To", "Message-ID" and "Date" attributes are equal, even if other parts are different. Sometimes it happens that messages have differences in one or two of the above attributes, but are otherwise identical, so it is worth excluding some of the attributes from comparison.This happened in your case while time is different by a few hours, most probably because of invalid time zone configuration on one or more computers with which you synchronize messages.

The Bat! version 7.4.4 offers more options for deleting duplicate emails. This version introduces new command line parameters to exclude certain attributes from comparison when deleting duplicates. So, you can exclude message creation date/time. For more information on command line parameters supported by The Bat!, their usage and samples please refer to https://www.ritlabs.com/en/support/help/77/#6680
16 January 2017 16:33:35, Maxim Masiutin.

Thousands of duplicate emails

Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:02:09 +0200

Thousands of duplicate emails how can I remove them? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Well, if these are really thousands of copies of (nearly) the same e-mail, just search for something that's in these e-mails (but not in others). Then, in the list of found messages, select all-but-one of them and delete them.

edit:
Oh wait - never mind. You have thousands of e-mails that each have one duplicate. Yes, that complicates things
30 December 2016 19:02:09, Daniel van Rooijen.

Thousands of duplicate emails

Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:59:50 +0200

Thousands of duplicate emails how can I remove them? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
ritlabs cant do this ie allow you to choose what paramenters you use to compare
this is not an industrial email client
30 December 2016 09:59:50, GEORGE BESTER.

Thousands of duplicate emails

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:20:13 +0300

Thousands of duplicate emails how can I remove them? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
I don't think it's possible to delete those duplicates automatically.
30 July 2012 00:20:13, Roelof Otten.

Thousands of duplicate emails

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:35:51 +0300

Thousands of duplicate emails how can I remove them? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Anyone can help me?
29 July 2012 15:35:51, Massimo Z.

Thousands of duplicate emails

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:18:57 +0200

Thousands of duplicate emails how can I remove them? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Hello guys.

My The Bat! client have today 225.000 emails with hundreds of folders and subfolders.

I found some thousands of duplicate emails in this folders/subs. I can't use the procedure "remove duplicates" because this emails have a 2 hour difference in the date of creation.

ex.
email 1
FROM: Franck
TO: Massimo
SUBJ: Hello!
Text: Hello my friend
Created: 01 nov 2011, 18.04
size: 1.098 bytes

email2
FROM: Franck
TO: Massimo
SUBJ: Hello!
Text: Hello my friend
Created: 01 nov 2011, 20.04 <------- here the only one difference (two hours in all duplicate emails)

size: 1.098 bytes

I think the problem is born a few months ago when I used the procedure of synchronization between notebooks <--> netbooks, although I'm not 100% sure

I have some chance to automatically remove these emails?

Thanks
23 November 2011 20:18:57, Massimo Z.