Charles Marcus wrote:
Hello,
Well, I have a brain-dead user (using Thunderbird 2.0.0.14) who just
won't listen when I tell them not to try to move 5000+ messages at one
time (or if deleting, bypass the Trash), and they managed to royally
screw up their maildirs...
It's never bothered me - though I'm typically on a local IMAP
connection. Is yours different?
I have two problems...
1. The /tmp directory has 9+GB in it... can I just rm tmp/* on that
directory without making this problem worse?
That'll make 'em go away...shouldn't compromise anything, unless they
moved good stuff they wanted to keep....
and
2. One of the directories they were moving now has 5 copies of a whole
bunch of messages...
I'm very dangerous when it comes to command-line work beyond really
basic stuff, and my scripting skills are less than inspiring...
Is there a relatively safe command-line way of finding all messages
that have more than one instance, and deleting all but the last instance?
The only way to determine if the messages are the same would be to do a
full-text comparison, per message. Not fun. Tell the user they get to
enjoy processing their mail by hand - an object lesson in why they
should listen to their sysadmin.
--
Daniel
