We're having issues with people submitting duplicate contact forms. To automate the deletion of duplicate emails I added the following code to line 16 of contact-form-7/modules/special-mail-tags.php:
elseif ( '_user_agent' == $name )
$output = preg_replace( '/[^0-9A-Za-z.:()\[\], ]/', '', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] );
This allows me to send emails with both the remote IP address and the remote user agent. I can then use external email logic to detect duplicates or spammers more easily.
If it's useful to someone else, great, if not move along quietly... :)