[MlMt] Using MM Find features to search for email with duplicate receive dates and subject

[John Cooper]

I take it that Edit > Select Duplicates is no help? I find that this 
command is enabled when focus is on an item in the Mailboxes list. If 
you’re concerned with finding messages in different folders, you can 
select All Messages.

I’ve never heard of an “unknown” folder appearing, so I can’t 
help diagnose that. Am I right in guessing that this is an IMAP folder? 
It helps to distinguish IMAP folders from smart folders (“mailboxes” 
in MailMate parlance) when describing a problem.

> In the Find search parameters, I see nothing about matching for groups 
> of duplicate messages (E.G. matching multiple equal dates, subjects). 
> The parameter of a match between messages seems foreign to MailMates 
> parameters.

The first method that comes to mind is sorting the set of messages by 
date or subject, and then scanning for duplicates manually or by using 
“Select Duplicates.” But I admit this might not be practical if you 
have more than a few thousand messages to search.

Henry Seiden wrote (at 9:22 AM on Sunday, December 15, 2024):

> John,
>
> Thanks for your comments. Here’s what happened… (longer story)
>
> Manually found pairs of emails with the same subject and date/time and 
> inspected them. They were identical. Then found several more. What 
> happened further, if that there were a significant number of email in 
> an archive folder in MailMate mailbox from a known source that were in 
> an “unknown” folder not related apparently to any source account. 
> Didn’t know this could even happen, yet it did.
>
> The messages were actually from the se=me sender account but sound up 
> there somehow (in error). So I figured it best to simply move them 
> back to the correct (Archive Folder) manually.
>
> Then I found that many of those were somehow duplicates of existing 
> emails, some were not. Therefore began looking for ways to identify 
> (in MailMate) which were subject and date/time matches. A few found 
> manually since were triples, too. Hence the question.
>
> In the Find search parameters, I see nothing about matching for groups 
> of duplicate messages (E.G. matching multiple equal dates, subjects). 
> The parameter of a match between messages seems foreign to MailMates 
> parameters.
>
> However I saw workarounds using external file editors. I am looking 
> into those options as I think this is a missing feature in MailMate.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Henry Seiden
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>
> On 15 Dec 2024, at 12:05, John Cooper wrote:
>
>> Henry Seiden wrote (at 6:30 AM on Sunday, December 15, 2024):
>>
>>> Recently I found several duplicate emails with the same subject and 
>>> receive dates, so would like find the batch of similar email, via a 
>>> search for them either globally or in a particular source mailbox. 
>>> In MM’s utility language don’t see a way to select that in the 
>>> Find (Menu>Edit>Find>Find Messages) search criteria.
>>
>> Can you clarify what you mean by “the batch of similar email”? 
>> You said you already found “several duplicate emails,” but it’s 
>> not clear whether all these emails were identical or whether you mean 
>> several pairs of duplicates. What are the search criteria you’re 
>> having trouble specifying?
>>
>> Not sure I can help — I just want to understand the problem.
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