Automatic deletion of doubled e-mail entries?

I've got a laptop running now, along with the tower, and I'm getting two copies of a lot of my e-mail.
Is there a way to do an automated deletion of all the repeat copies?
Ben

Ben,
you might want to check out the Remove Duplicates script available as part of Mail Scripts:
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/
Andreas

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