David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 23 Mar 2000:
> % does mutt have something like a dupe checker (or is there an external
> % program that's capable of this)?
>
> formail is probably your best bet for this. Check out the -D option for
> the Message-ID: cache...
Also there are other tools that will do this, that take more care than
formail -D to only remove real duplicates. formail -D relies on the
Message-ID, which is supposed to be unique for each message, but in
practice this may not always be. If you're concerned about this, you're
better off with a tool that does extra checks (md5 hash of the message
body, etc.).
At least the qmail home page http://www.qmail.org has a few of these
tools. I think they're intended for use with qmail, but they would
probably work with other mailers too, at least with a little tweaking.
Regards,
Mikko
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