Delete Duplicates for Outlook will enable you to delete duplicate e-mail messages from your Outlook mailboxes.

It is a add-in, i.e. an auxiliary program that interfaces with Outlook, can operate in and on the Outlook environment.

A variety of conditions, ranging from mail server errors to events that occur on one's own computer -- such as explicitly copying messages via a Outlook Rules Wizard, moving or copying and amalgamating mailboxes, especially in moving files from one drive to another or one computer to another, restoring backed up mail files, and so on -- can lead to the presence of duplicate mail messages.

While some people may not care about these, anyone who either likes having an organized filing system or being able to keep track of whether messages have been responded to or appropriately handled will find such duplicates a nuisance, aside from the fact that they waste space on one's hard drive, especially when it is a question of not only one copy of a message but multiple copies.

When you add to this the condition that multiple copies of a message with an attachment lead to multiple attachments, and that messages with embedded graphics, which are an ever larger portion of Internet e-mail, store multiple copies of these graphics files, we are talking about a potentially large mess!

Fortunately, Delete Duplicates for Outlook will solve this problem and help you maintain an ordered mailbox and message system by eliminating duplicate messages, attachments, and embedded graphics, under a variety of conditions and according to a variety of user-selectable and configurable options.

This will enable you to keep your Outlook mail in the kind of order that makes the most sense for the way you prefer to conduct your life, your profession, or your business.

Here are some key features of "Delete Duplicates for Outlook":

· Mailboxes-tree panel
· Mailbox-information panel
· 3 major scanning methods: Classic, Hash & Light
· Classic method: Byte for byte match-up
· Hash method: Compare hash values
· Light method: Compare message-ids
· Fast and reliable performances
· Additional scanning options
· Provision to compare message headers (Compare All/Include Some/Exclude Some)
· Provision to compare message attachments (Compare All/Include Some/Exclude Some)
· Cross-mailbox scan - Compare for duplicates across several mailboxes
· Prioritize mailboxes
· Variety of filters: Match: Status/Importance/Text Field/Attachment Name/Message Flags/Date Range/Size
· Option to match all or any filter
· Variety of actions (what to do with duplicates): Delete/Set Expired/Set Flag "Duplicate"/Set Importance
· Use of Regular Expression
· Tweaks - Additional optimizations
· Logging

Requirements:

· Microsoft Outlook 2000 (and newer)

Limitations:

· Action features are disabled if program is in demo-mode.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Special Scanning Method. (See Help-file for details.)
· Tool: Delete Duplicate Contacts.
· Tool: Delete Duplicate Calendar Items (Appointments).
· Tool: Delete Duplicate Tasks.
· Tool: Delete Duplicate Journal Entries.
· Tool: Delete Duplicate Notes.
· Scanning Method description label.
· Scanning Timeout.
· Group Items by Originals.
· Maximize Results-window.
· Tools-bar.
· User Manual.
· Extended logging for all types of COM errors.
· Misc logging tweaks and improvements.
· Installer updated.
· Windows tool-tips.
· Main program icon.
· Special COM error handling for attachment extraction.
· All files are now temporarily stored in current system "TEMP" folder,
· instead of the main program folder.
· No unfolded attachments are left behind in case Outlook raises exception (caused by invalid/damaged attachments).
· Overall scan will be continued if invalid attachments are detected.
· Invalid attachments info is logged, if "Log COM Errors" is checked(Tweaks/Logging).