On 22.11.2011, at 11.10, Alexander Chekalin wrote: > when from my script I try to copy messages from one imap folder into another > own (within the same imap mailbox). That works perfectly, but... If I copy > the same message N times from one folder into another one, in the destination > folder I see N copies of the same message, each with its own UID.
Right. > I wonder if there any way to deduplicate folder content (so in the > destination folder I'll get only one copy of each message)? Not any easy way currently. > I'd implement something like that myself in my script but I just don't know > which part of the messages should I compare - probably md5 of headers? What Dovecot version and what mailbox format?