Freron MailMate

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  benny June 1st, 2018 @ 02:19 PM

  That first from line shouldn't be there. It's not a valid header because of the lack of the colon. I believe MailMate handles it by skipping the line.

  The line probably became part of the email as part of some export/import cycle in which the so-called mbox format was involved (this is a format which allows multiple emails in a single file, but it's not a very good format).

  That's the theoretical part. You have a practical problem, but it's not straightforward how to solve it since MailMate doesn't see this line.

  MailMate has a menu item named “View ▸ Select Duplicates” which almost solves your problem. The problem is that it looks at both Message-ID (another header) and the size of the message to find duplicates. The latter won't work for your emails because of the added line.

  But I can see I have a hidden preference which might help you:

  defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmSelectDuplicatesBasedOnMessageIDOnly -bool YES
  

  Be careful using that though since there is a small risk that some emails do not have unique message ids. (In most cases, that is going to be spam though.)

  I hope this helps.

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  Jeff Templon June 1st, 2018 @ 02:38 PM

  Thanks, this does indeed remove the problem I had with it not finding duplicates. Unfortunately now it finds the wrong copy as "the duplicate to be removed" in many cases - meaning, it selects the ones with the "good" From to remove, leaving the ???@??? ones in the mailbox. I realize this is not a problem for MailMate but it could be a problem for some other mail client.

  I've found a IMAP dedup python script and I may just hack it to "do the write thing" :-)

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  benny June 2nd, 2018 @ 07:07 AM

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  It's kind of random which one MailMate selects. If it wasn't then MailMate should probably select the largest one (making it less likely to loose data). If you cannot solve it any other way then maybe I can add a hidden preference to prioritize the smallest ones, but it's kind of a very user-specific feature :-)