Re: Duplicate Contacts

On Sun, 08 May 2005 10:32:13 -0700, Phil C.
<charlestekrcn.com> wrote:

> There must be a way of creating a perl script,
javascript, vbscript
> using regexes to identify duplicates and deleting them.
>
> All it would have to do is : Foreach contact, if
id,name,created, mail
> equal another contact, delete the latter contact(s)
>
> This should be trivial for an expert.

I thought so too, until I realized that then all of M2's
indexes would  
contain pointers to nonexistent or reassigned records in the
contacts  
file. I didn't want to lose the ability to click on those
contact records  
and instantly see all the messages to/from that contact.

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