MySQL delete duplicate records but keep latest

Question

I have unique id and email fields. Emails get duplicated. I only want to keep one Email address of all the duplicates but with the latest id<

Answer 1

I personally had trouble with the top two voted answers. It's not the cleanest solution but you can utilize temporary tables to avoid all the issues MySQL has with deleting via joining on the same table.

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE deleteRows;
SELECT MIN(id) as id FROM myTable GROUP BY myTable.email;

DELETE FROM myTable
WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT id FROM deleteRows);