Add-ons
Reviews for Remove Duplicate Messages
298 reviews for this add-on
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Can it be enhanced to compare a specific header? I use it to remove duplicate RSS items and the best would be if it compared the 'website' header
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.5).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
I have been using this addon for quite some time. (One of the mail gateway through which I forward an e-mail
occasional hiccups and send duplicate messages, and thus I need to use addon like this.)
This addon works fine and quite fast.
However, since a few version back, I have noticed strange behavior.
It used to be that if I am looking at the latest messae in a folder, and
if I try to remove the dupes in that foloder only, after the removal of duplication, the
current focus (of the messages, that is) is near the latest message in that folder (module the
deleted message.)
In the current version, the focus is left on a very old message. Thus, I am left in an old message in my folder and
have to scroll down to get to the latest message. (Yes, I keep the latest message at the bottom in my usage.)
This has been noticeable since early summer(? I am not sure). But this pesky behavior is a little
irritating.
Otherwise, I will give a five star :-)
Thank you for the great addon.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is a fantastic tool that is really needed - particularly in a busy business environment.
There has been one change in behaviour recently. Running against a dovecot IMAP server with around a couple of hundred folders containing tens of thousands of emails, if we select "Review Search Results Before Deletion" everything works fine (although someone has to be here to press the button). If we un-tick this option, it finds no duplicates whatsoever. Nothing. Nada. I have tried playing around with all the other options but to no avail.
That's about the only failing I have found and it appears to be a newly introduced bug - older versions worked perfectly.
I'll give it 9/10 - it would have got 10/10 except for the minor hiccup.
Nigel.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Yay! It's easy. It's quick. It works!
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Thanks a lot for your fast help on my french version.
Great addon.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
You did a great job - thanks! The add-on works just fine and very quick for my some hundred mails.
Yet it took me some time to find out (by reading other comments) that I need to remove the checkmark on "skip special folders". Before I did that I tried hard to remove duplicates on my imap account (using special folders) with no success and also no message from the add-on except "Looking for duplicates".
I would prefer that you choose the default as "skip special folders" = NO.
By the way the German translation lacks some strings in "...extensions\{a300a000-5e21-4ee0-a115-9ec8f4eaa92b}\chrome\removedupes.jar\locale\de-DE\removedupes\removedupes-prefs.dtd"
<!ENTITY message_comparison.time_comparison_resolution.description "Vergleich von Zeiten mit:">
<!ENTITY message_comparison.time_comparison_resolution.seconds.label "Sekunden">
<!ENTITY message_comparison.time_comparison_resolution.minutes.label "Minuten">
<!ENTITY message_comparison.time_comparison_resolution.hours.label "Stunden">
<!ENTITY message_comparison.time_comparison_resolution.day.label "Tagen">
<!ENTITY message_comparison.time_comparison_resolution.month.label "Monaten">
<!ENTITY message_comparison.time_comparison_resolution.year.label "Jahren">
Without them the settings dialog will fail.
There are also some other strings in the file that are not yet translated to German, but still English.
Thank you for your work.
-thomas.
The locale issue is fixed in 0.3.5 which you can download and which will become the released version very very soon.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
There's a very important feature you haven't rewritten: preferred unanswered first. Without this, the thread is not indented correctly.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.3).The extension does support this. You can sort the messages in the review dialog according to their headers, with the unanswered being first (or last). Then 'Keep First' does the trick.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This add-on does not work with Thunderbird 3.1.2 , Please develope and fix the compatibilty issue with the lates version of Thunderbird. Thanks
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.3).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It works! Use this one instead of the other one.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.3).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I had trouble setting up pop mail for yahoo so I ended up getting yahoo mails sent to both my primary and yahoo pop account in one email client. This gets rid of those pesky duplicates instantly. Thank you!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.3).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Works great for me in TB 3.1
Helped me recover after a crash in Windows when setting back several backups
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great work on this add-on, it worked well. The original did not respect the sent folder option, but this one does. Great options, thanks for that!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.3).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
It takes some tweaking sometimes (i.e. changing up the search criteria) to get all of them, but this add-on is fantastic!! Having recently moved (or more aptly in the process of moving) to Gmail IMAP services, I do see it doesn't work very well in this context (which is really too bad, as I was counting on this extension to help me merge my online and old pop folders and weed out the duplicates)...
David
If you're having trouble with dupe removal on an IMAP account, file a bug using http://www.mozdev.org/bugs or at least email me. The extension does work with IMAP accounts including GMail.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Its a great tool, but it didn't work with over 50.000 messages (that could be explained by our very slow responding imapserver)
1 major drawback is that this tool needs to make a copy to the trashcan which slows it down considerably.
Please file bug reports for the first issues at www.mozdev.org/bugs .
As for the first issue, this is not true - you can choose to erase completely rather than move to trash.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent Add-on!!! I had over 6 thousand emails in my inbox, lots of them dupes... I right clicked on inbox, then Remove Duplicates... a single screen wizard let me select which copy to keep for each dupe, globally, not making the selection one by one! (first copy, last copy, etc.)... And that's it! compared my cleaned up inbox with another machine running TB and both had just 3825 emails under inbox :)
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.3).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works great -- much richer than I'd have guessed! tyvm! (still on TB 2).
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.3).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
It appears on a first run through that this performed as advertised. If so, a lifesaver..
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.3).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I am an old-time Eudora user.. So long ago that I bought it off the shelf, in a box! I later upgraded to the freeware ad-supported version. When it was time to move on to Thunderbird recently I wanted to be sure that I imported all my older messages and such. I imported the early version files into the intermediate version, then imported that into the current 3.0.4 T'bird. As you can imagine there were a LOT of duplicate messages. Trying to organize messages by folders and years made it worse. I found "Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate) 0.3.3" and it found well over 1,600 duplicate messages. Can you imagine how long it would take to deal with that manually? "RDM alt" did the job easily in minutes helping make migration to Thunderbird a lot easier. .
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.3).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nearly really really good...
Simple to run (just select the option on right-click menu (windows)) - and very clear interface. Ran it on an IMAP inbox -it found and removed 419 dupes - great; but it missed another dozen. Why?? Still, the 419 saved a lot of mouse finger strain! - Thanks
(Using TB 3.0.3)
removedupes didn't miss anything; the other messages were simply not exact dupes, only similar. Try relaxing your comparison criteria.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
In principle a good tool. I've tried it with TB 3.0.3 together with Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate) 0.3.4.
But I've got the problem that duplicates on an IMAP Server cannot be found. I think that it is related to the new feature of TB 3.x.x where for a search on a host the Flag "Run search on server" has to be marked. This might also influence the work of Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate) .
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