On Friday, January 01, 2016 03:58:18 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 01 January 2016 14:25:17 Mick wrote: > > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 13:06:55 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Thanks for your thoughts Mick. I think most of my problems have > > > persisted > > > through many iterations from the early days of KMail-2. At any rate, > > > I've > > > just deleted the whole KMail structure once more and reimported from > > > archive and so far I've no duplicates. I used to get duplicates in > > > certain folders even from the import process. > > > > Perhaps the latest version of KDE fixed this problem of duplicate > > messages. I noticed that on Kmail2 there is a menu option: > > > > /Folder/Remove Duplicate Messages Ctrl+* > > > > I haven't used it, but you may want to give this a spin if the problem > > returns. > > I've tried it many times, with no discernible effect at all - not even on > CPU use.
I have and it does work. Especially handy when merging dealing with mailboxes created by importing PST- files. (For the uninitiated, these are files created by Outlook to store archived emails locally) Often, emails are duplicated over multiple of these. Simplest solution: 1) Move them all into a single folder 2) Tell Kmail to remove duplicates I've managed to quickly clean up large amounts of duplicates without loosing a single real email. (Emails from my wife, if one would have been missing, I'd have heard it by now....) -- Joost
