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9Jan/100

Deleting duplicates in Thunderbird

I've been looking for hands down the best email solution and I think I might have found it. I've been using Thunderbird for a while now and simply love Thunderbird 3.0 It'a greate email client overall however I did come across something that bugged me and finally figured out how to overcome it. I get a lot of duplicate emails daily. I'm not talking about the same request re-worded I'm talkign about the same exact email because someone on a form on email client re-sent me the same thing more then once. It's rather annoying and clutters up my inbox. I was hoping I would be able to set up a generic "duplicate" filter. However as it turns out there was none. I did find the correct way to do it by manually changing a configuration file setting for Thunderbird. So here is how you would change it so that duplicates get deleted once retreived.

1. Open Thunderbird (Really I had to tell you that ?)
2. Browse to: Tools > Options > Advanced > Config Editor
3. Look up: mail.server.default.dup_action
4. Double Click on it and set it's value to.

Posible entries for the value are represented by 1 numeric character. Here is what changes each number makes:

0 = Default Entry. Retrieves dups.
1 = Duplicates are deleted after they are retreived. (Should work well for most users.)
2 = Dups get moved to the trash.
3 = Duplicates get marked as read messages.

WARNING: I'm not responsible for your inability to correctly follow instructions or any actions you take for that matter. As a general rule. Please don't play with any settings you don't feel fully comfortable with.