[pmmail-list] How to stop duplicate messages

[Gregory L. Marx]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:57:29 -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:

Use the remote login feature of PMMail and delete the duplicates prior to re-doing the next download ...

Gregory L. Marx

>Using PMMail Professional v2.20.2711 under Windows 98.
>
>I have found that many times a download of several hundred messages will stall
>at a single message and does not complete.  This may be some kind of server error.
>
>When this happens and I re-download the mail, the messages I previously got are duplicated
>leaving me the chore of hand deleting the dupes.  Sometimes I have gotten 3 or 4 stalls
>which leads to that many duplicates.
>
>It seems that, although PMMail reports it is deleting each message from the server
>right after it downloads them, it must actually simply be _flagging_ the messages
>for deletion.  When the entire download stalls, it never gets to the physical delete part.
>
>The duplicates message all have the same date, time and text and _may_ be identical except for
>the PMMail assigned file name.
>
>Is there any way to programatically delete the dupes?
>
>Thanks,
>Larry Alkoff
>
>
>
>
>Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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