{"id":24,"date":"2008-08-06T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-22T06:41:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T06:41:36","slug":"the-trouble-with-imap-and-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Imap and Thunderbird&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One annoying thing about Imap clients like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla-europe.org\/en\/products\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a> is you can end up getting a bunch of duplicate messages in various folders from copying messages from your Inbox. For instance, I have one folder with about 17,000 messages in it and a bunch of duplicates that are just taking up space, bandwidth and CPU cycles when I open that folder.<\/p>\n<p>This is where a really nifty Thunderbird plugin comes in handy with the amazing name of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/addon\/956\">Remove Duplicate Messages<\/a>&#8220;. With a simple download, install and a restart of Thunderbird and I found I had about 1,000 messages that were duplicates in that folder, or almost 6% of the folder. In another folder that has my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanog.org\/\">NANOG<\/a> mailing list, I found about 10% of the messages were duplicates.<\/p>\n<p>The defaults are pretty sane, where it will keep the first message it finds and delete all duplicates after that message. Just right click on the folder (control-click for Mac OSX) and you will see in the menu &#8220;Remove Duplicate Messages&#8230;&#8221;. It will start to scan your folder and then give you a list of duplicate mail it found. You can scan through what it though where dups to verify and then click &#8220;Delete Selected&#8221; to have it move to the trash the duplicate messages. Quick and easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One annoying thing about Imap clients like Thunderbird is you can end up getting a bunch of duplicate messages in various folders from copying messages from your Inbox. For instance, I have one folder with about 17,000 messages in it and a bunch of duplicates that are just taking up space, bandwidth and CPU cycles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/?p=24\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Trouble with Imap and Thunderbird&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}