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Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express 2.2 - Outlook Express Add-On

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Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express

Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express, true to its name and in a highly useful manner, removes duplicate messages from Outlook Express folders flawlessly and swiftly.

Pros

  • Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express nixes duplicate messages reliably
  • Emails can be compared using many fields (including attachments)
  • Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express can delete, move or purge detected duplicates

Cons

  • Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express could be even more flexible with comparison criteria

Description

  • Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express removes duplicate emails from Outlook Express folders.
  • You can check any single or any combination of folders.
  • Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express moves duplicates to the "Trash" or another folder.
  • Optionally, you can check only recent messages with Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express.
  • The criteria Remove Duplicates looks at include sender, subject, date, text and attachments.
  • When searching multiple folders, you can assign priorities to them.
  • Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.

Guide Review - Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express 2.2 - Outlook Express Add-On

Have you ever experienced duplicates? It's not a major issue, of course, but what a pesky little annoyance duplicate messages are! In Outlook Express, you can acquire them when a mail download goes wrong, or when moving your archive from one computer to another.

Unfortunately, Outlook Express is short on ways to get rid or even identify these duplicate emails. You can sort a folder by date to identify some, but what about identical twins in different folders?

Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express helps. Remove Duplicates helps in a very competent and straight-forward manner. Usually, all that is required is pressing one button, and Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express finds all the duplicates in all folders and diligently trashes them.

Of course, you can specify which folders you want Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express to look in, and you can designate what happens to the duplicates, too. Remove Duplicates can purge them immediately and forever, for example.

While Remove Duplicates does always and by default look at message contents, subject and sender information to decide whether two messages are identical, you can make it take recipients, dates and attachments into account, too. Checking only recent messages speeds Remove Duplicates from Outlook Express up a bit.

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