Dear Jiri, Thanks for your feedback. Does not work. I guess its because of the usage of getmail. I had set it to read_all = true which downloaded all the messages several times. Will purge the entire box and use getmail again to move all messages. Thanks Kevin
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Jiri Bourek <bou...@thinline.cz> wrote: > On 13.2.2015 16:59, Kevin Laurie wrote: >> >> Dear Jiri, >> >> I tried the following to try to get the inbox deduplicated. My inbox is >> quite large and urgently need to remove the duplicated messages. >> Is there an easy way to do this? >> Sorry for being so presistant but I need help. >> >> The command I tried:- >> >> doveadm deduplicate -u u...@domain.net mailbox inbox >> > > I'd try this (in shell): > > doveadm search -u u...@domain.net mailbox inbox | wc -l > > Doveadm will print mailbox-guid and uid pair for every message in inbox, one > per line, pipe it into "wc -l", which will count the lines and output a > number - that's the count of messages in INBOX. > > Then try doveadm deduplicate and after that the search command above again. > If the count changed, deduplicate is working - you may only need to run it > multiple times. > > If the count doesn't change, dovecot is unable to recognize duplicates in > your mailbox and you need to find another solution. Maybe check out the "-m" > option in man doveadm-deduplicate
