Eliminating Duplicate Messages While Consolidating Impotered Mailboxes

I'm recovering from a complete OS Erase/Reinstall, and the last step is to move old messages (backed up on another volume, natch..) from the imported mailboxes into the newly created In/Out boxes. This will create duplicates, which I will then have to manually weed out. Mail (2.0.5) has no provision for this. Any strategies for this?
TIA.
mrbl

Andreas Amann’s Mail Scripts has a Remove Duplicates script that may do what you want.
Not sure at which point of reinstalling Mac OS X you’re now, but if you’ve already installed the system updates and are running Mac OS X 10.4.11, as your profile indicates, the version of Mail should be at least 2.1 (2.1.3 if you’ve installed the latest Security Update), not 2.0.5...

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