I have a very large MBOX file with thousands of emails collected over several years, and now it contains a lot of duplicate messages with slightly different timestamps or headers. How can I accurately detect and remove only the true duplicates without risking the loss of any important unique emails?
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To safely remove duplicates from a large MBOX, don’t rely on timestamps or headers since they often vary. Instead, normalize emails by stripping volatile headers (like Received) and compare using stable fields (From, To, Subject, Message-ID, body text). Use a perfect solution like SameTools MBOX Duplicate Remover, which quickly finds duplicate MBOX files and removes them without losing important data. This tool can handle many duplicate MBOX files without installing any application or software. It will support all Windows OS versions like 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, and also support email clients. You can try their free demo.
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