Am 10.06.2014 15:17, schrieb Steffen Kaiser: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Charles Marcus wrote: >> On 6/9/2014 5:44 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt <r...@sys4.de> wrote: >>> That's probably the problem here. The user had LOTS of (duplicate!) >>> mails in his inbox. > >> Anyone ever found a reliable way to do this? > >> It sure would be nice if dovecot could perform this on a per account and/or >> per maildir/mailbox case with a >> simple doveadm command... > > The basic question is: what is a duplicate? > > I spot 100% duplicates within the same Maildir mailbox with a script similiar > to "fdupes" > http://linux.die.net/man/1/fdupes . > Because an user may copy messages around, I scan one mailbox at a time. > > For some rare cases, where I merge two accounts, I use a script, that looks > for the message id in one account and > removes all messages with the same id in the other account. Than I merge the > Maildirs. > > However, neither script I would call general enough for automatic processing
dbmail has just "suppress_duplicates = yes" and silently ignores *new received* messages with the same message-id to the same user as a global setting that's fine for people not able to handling a mailing-list and hit reply-all every time
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