# De-duplicate linked images via emails
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/de-duplicate-linked-images-via-emails/42645
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2016年四月16日 00:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/de-duplicate-linked-images-via-emails/42645 "2016-04-16T00:54:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [2016年四月16日 00:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/de-duplicate-linked-images-via-emails/42645/1 "2016-04-16T00:54:20Z")
When receiving post content via incoming email a new image is downloaded each time and stored.
### Steps to reproduce
- Setup email to be received by group in a shared inbox
- you receive an email from PayPal links their logo: `http://images.paypal.com/en_US/i/logo/logo_emailheader_113wx46h.gif`
- Discourse downloads said logo and keeps a copy.
- Wait for micro-payments to roll in.
- Lucky you now receive 1000 emails in a single day from PayPal.
### Expected
- a single copy of the logo to be stored on disk.
### Actual
- Lucky you, you now have 1000+ copies of their logo.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年四月16日 02:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/de-duplicate-linked-images-via-emails/42645/2 "2016-04-16T02:06:05Z")
Hmm I wonder if we should ignore images in staged emails. This makes it awfully hard for a support email with a screenshot to work, though.. your thoughts @zogstrip?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年四月16日 10:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/de-duplicate-linked-images-via-emails/42645/3 "2016-04-16T10:48:31Z")
Odd, the de-duplication really should be working for this, if not something is off (uploads are created and the uploads should be automatically de-duplicated). Not too keen of giving up on images here.