Get Rid of Duplicate Message Copies

This is not another ' ... receiving multiple copies ...' thread; I managed to do this to myself or, more specifically, to my wife's mailbox. The 'how' part is unclear, and would probably bore everyone to tears; suffice it to say it occurred during a period of generally mindless play with Smart Folders, new Rules being written, Rules being edited, Rules being re-ordered, etc., etc. At the end of the day, after a long long LONG period of file churning by Mail.app, all popped back into appearance and operation as it should. The only small flaw was that a lot of her Inbox (POP account running in Mail.app) now had duplicated messages.
I know I can manually delete them all and get it done in a bit less than forty forevers. It seems, though, that there must be an easier way. Could this be an Automator task? Or does a little Applescript already exist to do this very thing? Or some anonymous little utility program?
TIA for any inputs or assistance.

Michael,
there is indeed an AppleScript out there which should do this for you - check out the Remove Duplicates script available as part of Mail Scripts
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/
Andreas

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