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A script to remove duplicate messages from Mail.app
Authored by: aamann on Dec 27, '03 08:42:50PM

Looks like this hint is already outdated;-)

Just yesterday, I released a completely new version of 'Mail Scripts' which is AppleScript Studio based. You won't be able to find the above mentioned line in the code any more (which was part of the 1.3.7 version which is still available for download - the ReadMe file for the old version includes a link for the sources of that version).

Andreas Amann



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A script to remove duplicate messages from Mail.app
Authored by: pisej5 on Dec 29, '03 03:17:42PM

I installed these mail scripts and tried out the "Remove duplicates..." script, but unfortunately it generates an error (AppleEvent timed out -1712) while loading the mailbox hierarchy and Mail.app hangs after this. Have anybody had the same experience? I'm trying this running Panther on a Cube.



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Yes, known - working on a fix/work-around
Authored by: aamann on Dec 29, '03 10:29:16PM

Yes, this is a known problem (however, it doesn't occur for everyone...)

I am currently re-writing the "Remove Duplicates" script completely and this issue should hopefully be gone with the new version (it is not a problem of the code used but some nasty AppleScript/AppleEvent caused race problem/race condition)

Andreas Amann



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An unusual problem and the "status" header
Authored by: scorpion on Mar 19, '04 09:08:29AM

I've been running Mac OS X since it was released and never had any duplicates. But just after updating to 10.3.3, I got a ton of duplicates only in my POP account (not my .mac or anything else). I ran the script and it didn't find them. One thing I noticed was when I showed complete headers, the status of the newly-downloaded messages was "RO" and the status in the original message was blank (and the message IDs were identical). Is there something in the script which differentiates between duplicate messages with this weird Status header difference? Or can someone tell me what the deal is with these messages?

Thanks.



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