The Bottom Line
Pros
- OE Duplicate Remover finds and deletes duplicate messages in Outlook Express
- You can specify flexibly which copy of duplicates you want to keep
- OE Duplicate Remover compares messages using a number of criteria, including the text
Cons
- OE Duplicate Remover could offer more precise comparison criteria (attachments and message IDs)
Description
- OE Duplicate Remover finds message duplicates in Outlook Express.
- Any superfluous copies can be deleted, purged or moved to a special folder for inspection.
- OE Duplicate Remover compares sender, subject, date and message text to identify duplicates.
- You can choose which folders to scan.
- Each folder and certain flags (unread) can be given precedence when deciding which copy is kept.
- The messages searched for duplicates can be limited to a date range.
- OE Duplicate Remover supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - OE Duplicate Remover 1.0 - Outlook Express Add-On
Some emails have a tendency to duplicate. It is usually not quite clear how this feat is accomplished, but, fortunately, we need not care. Be it an interrupted connection that had Outlook Express download certain emails twice, be it an error in Outlook Express itself, be it that a sender simply clicked "Send" repeatedly, running OE Duplicate Remover once in a while will take care of the problem.Once past the somewhat whimsical welcome screen, you are guided gently through the process in easy steps. Choose the folders to check, choose the criteria used to compare messages, choose which messages to keep, choose what to do with duplicates.
Each step is done in sufficiently flexible a manner, though OE Duplicate Remover could do even better in most cases. In addition to a few select headers and the message text, it could compare messages based on their IDs or attachments, for example, or it could allow for more precise filtering to narrow the scope of emails compared. Searching for duplicates could also be a tad faster, but what could not?
In general, all these minor points will have little significance. This is because, in general, OE Duplicate Remover does identify any messages occurring two or more times, and it does it in a manner that makes it easy to get rid of exactly those copies not needed fast.
