* Jose Romildo Malaquias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000530 09:35]:
> Is there an easy (and efficient) way of removing duplicated messages from
> my mailboxes (keeping only one copy of them)? Note that I am talking
> about old messages already saved in the mailboxes, not the new messages
> being delivered now to the mailboxes.
Same way you would for new mail being delivered... run it through
procmail!
use the good ol procmail rules: (see "man procmail")
:0 Whc: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
:0 a:
duplicates
Then dump the mailbox through procmail (make sure that nobody will try
to deliver to the mailbox while you're doing this...)
formail -s procmail < mailbox
You probably want to be careful what other procmail rules you have in
~/.procmailrc, since all will be applied. You probably want to redirect
the output of formail somewhere, as well...
HTH,
jon
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