On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 01:33:31PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 03:34:58AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > This program searches a set of mail folders for duplicated mails. Those > > are notorious when you receive the same notification via different ways, > > get mails crossposted to multiple mailing lists, etc.
> Note that one can simply discard these messages with procmail with a > recipe like one in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/09/msg03505.html Hmm, right. That would work for most use cases. Downsides: * according to maildir-deduplicate's upstream, some non-spam mail servers fail to assign msgids * bad threading (direct reply almost always comes first, the mailing list copy would be better) Big fat upside: * done automatically instead of a [semi-]manual action The package still has its other uses (mutt doubles mails when you lose connection after moving stuff, said to be a common failure of mail fetch, etc) so unless someone else brings another reason I'll continue packaging. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ There's an easy way to tell toy operating systems from real ones. ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Just look at how their shipped fonts display U+1F52B, this makes ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ the intended audience obvious. It's also interesting to see OSes ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ go back and forth wrt their intended target.
