{"id":1969,"date":"2024-10-21T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T05:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:07:01","slug":"duplicate-emails-of-outlook-and-its-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/duplicate-emails-of-outlook-and-its-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Know about Duplicate Items of Outlook and Its Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"alert alert-warning\"><b>How &#8220;Rules and Alert&#8221; Option in MS Outlook Creates Duplicate Items?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><b>Rules and Alert<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d option in MS Outlook makes it easy for users to filter incoming and outgoing items. The messages that are being sent\/received by\/to a person in the distribution list are checked against all the rules that are being set by the user.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, when multiple rules are assigned for messages, it is likely to cause duplicate messages in an inbox. For example: You have three rules configured in Outlook:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Apply this rule after the message arrives<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where my name is in To or CC box<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and from &#8220;<\/span><b>ABC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also with &#8220;<\/span><b>Specific words in the subject or body<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and on this machine only<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">move it to the &#8220;<\/span><b>New Folder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Here,<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A message received from &#8220;<\/span><b>ABC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; will be dropped to &#8220;<\/span><b>New Folder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If any mail has that &#8220;<\/span><b>Specific Word<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; defined in the rule, it will be dropped to &#8220;<\/span><b>New Folder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; and &#8220;<\/span><b>Inbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If any of the mail has the name of the account holder in To or CC box, it will be dropped to Inbox as well as New Folder.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This creates duplicate in Outlook PST files that will eventually increase the file size which is the root cause of various problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To avoid the situation, it is suggested to remove repeated from Outlook PST from time to time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can set the action &#8220;<\/span><b>stop processing more rules<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; which will help to manage the rules and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/remove-duplicate-emails-from-pst-file\/\">remove duplicate emails from the PST file<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image1-3.png\" alt=\"rules wizard option\" width=\"288\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-warning\">\n<h2><b>How Can &#8220;Stop Processing More Rules Help to Avoid Duplicate Messages?<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When items are being sent and received, MS Outlook checks out the rules that are configured against them. The process of verification starts with the first rule in the list and finishes with the last rule. If a rule has the action &#8220;<\/span><b>Stop Processing More Rules<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; activated, then no other rule will be checked by Outlook for that specific message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This helps to avoid duplicates, especially when rules are fired in order to place items into a specific folder. When multiple rules run for a message, the inbox receives the same mail multiple times due to different sets of rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image3-3.png\" alt=\"rules wizard\" width=\"462\" height=\"158\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, this is helpful when duplicate creation is to be avoided. What when there is a need to remove repeated items?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-warning\">\n<h3><b>How to Remove Replicate using Third Party Application?<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duplicate emails in Outlook can be caused because of various reasons like multiple accounts, profile recreation, Anti-Virus scanners, multiple rules etc.\u00a0 If any reason is causing duplicates in Outlook, then we have the most powerful solution to work around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the help of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/duplicate-remover\/\">Outlook Duplicate Remover<\/a>, a solution is being provided that helps to eliminate replicate from and across files. The software has following features that helps to remove repeated data:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Remove Duplicates Within File:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Here, the software gives the opportunity to scan every file for duplicate items. For example: If there are two PST files-\u2018PST1\u2019 and \u2018PST2\u2019, the software will scan both these files individually and show the number of duplicates in them separately.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Remove Repeated Mails Across Files:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In this case, the software will scan the PST files and will display the number of repeated items in both \u201cPST1 and PST2\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Multiple Options to Export Dedupe Mails:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The tool to remove repeated items gives two options to export the dedupe files:<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Export Individual PST File (s)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The software will remove duplicates from the PST file and export it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Export Consolidated PST Files<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The software will remove duplicates and while exporting them, merge all the PST files into a single PST file. This way, the software acts as a <\/span><b>solution to merge Outlook\u00a0 PST files also<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>An Added Benefit<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"alert alert-primary\"><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are concerned about the emails that are being removed from the PST file as duplicates, then the software gives the option to save all duplicate items in a separate PST file.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"alert alert-warning\">\n<h3><b>How to Know About Working Steps of Email Duplicate Analyzer?<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verifying the tool for its features and functioning is possible with a demo version of the tool. With the help of freeware to remove repeated data, the number of duplicate items across and within the file can be analyzed but cannot be exported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Check Software Features:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find duplicates across PST files<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #ff0000;\">Merge Multiple PST Files<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after removing duplicates<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support corrupt and password protected PST files<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Option to save duplicates emails individually<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Folder hierarchy maintained during merging process<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provide report summary of duplicates emails<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Meanwhile, to work with free and complete version of tool, follow the guidelines<\/i><\/b><b>:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turn off your Outlook account. If Outlook is running, the tool will not load the PST file. As the file is in use by some other application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, while working with a tool if you try to run Outlook. It won&#8217;t be possible as the solution will be working with any of its PST. It would not allow any other application to work with a PST file. You will receive an error like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image2-3.png\" alt=\"Microsoft office outlook error\" width=\"447\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>So, here in this guide you get to know about duplicate emails in outlook and its solution. Follow the above steps in order to clear out duplicate emails from outlook time to time and can create you space.<br \/>\n<strong>Also Know<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/sort-out-list-in-outlook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Sort out List in Outlook<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How &#8220;Rules and Alert&#8221; Option in MS Outlook Creates Duplicate Items? \u201cRules and Alert\u201d option in MS Outlook makes it easy for users to filter incoming and outgoing items. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outlook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msoutlooktools.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}