De-Dupe contacts in Axigen Webmail?

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Is there a way to de-dupe contacts via Axigen Webmail or WebAdmin Portal? Or some other Axigen provided auto-magic portal script utility gizmo?

2

I would attempt this in an IMAP email client like outlook, but in Axigen’s case, IMAP does not synch the contacts just the emails. :angry:

3

Hi Pete,

Please let me know which contacts you would like to de-dupe:

  • Domain Contacts
  • Personal Contacts from “My Contacts” folder
4

This would be for personal contacts from “My Contacts” folder and also in the subfolders.

Do you have a utility that I can use to do this? I have about 700-800 contacts and to needs to be done with a familiar eye, since 1 or 2 of them are intentionally duplicates.

Thanks.

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Hi,

First set the value for imapShowAllFolders option to yes to make special folders (Calendar folders, Contacts folders, etc.) available through IMAP service using the below CLI commands:

<#> config server 
<server#> config imap
<server-imap#> SET imapShowAllFolders yes
<server-imap#> commit
<server#> commit
<#> save config

After that you may try imapdedup free utility to de-dupe your contacts.

Dry run example:
# ./imapdedup.py -s 127.0.0.1 -p 143 -u florin -w PASSWORD -n Contacts -c

Warning: Unencrypted connection
There are 4 messages in Contacts.
No message(s) currently marked as deleted in Contacts
4 others in Contacts
Message Contacts_2 is a duplicate of Contacts_1 and would be marked as deleted
Message Contacts_3 is a duplicate of Contacts_1 and would be marked as deleted
Message Contacts_4 is a duplicate of Contacts_1 and would be marked as deleted
4 message(s) in Contacts processed
If you had not selected the 'dry-run' option,
3 messages would now be marked as 'deleted'.

:warning: I strongly recommend you to create a backup of contacts folders before running the script (trough FUSE).

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Uhm… LOL. This is Linux. Got anything for Windows Servers?

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Hi,

The imapdedup is a python script and you may install the Python 2 interpreter on Windows.

Example:

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You may use the Python install kit for Windows available at:

And information regarding how to run a python script on your OS are available at:
http://www.cs.bu.edu/courses/cs108/guides/runpython.html

8

Interesting. Ok, thanks!

9

Hi @Pete!

How was your experience with the provided solution? Was it a success or did it failed? I didn’t actually have this issue but it is definitely good to know!

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@marcusdewald Thanks for the info. I’ve acutally been busy and haven’t tried it yet. LOL. But I am about to import a batch of contacts and I’m sure that will create more dupes, so I will need to figure this out soon! :slight_smile: