* Mike Loiterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080507 01:07]: > I have an mbox file with 3633 messages. Every single message has a > duplicate. I understand that I can easily delete duplicates with the > tag ~=. The problem that I have is that this only works with messages > with a unique message ID. Sadly, none of these messages has a unique > message ID, so this will not work. > > Is there some other way of deleting the duplicate messages? Is there > some way of tagging every other message or every odd numbered > message? There must be some way to select every other message and > delete it. > > Date filters won't work since each set of messages has a different > date. Neither will subject or From filters for the same reason. I > have also looked at grepmail which has the -u option for filtering out > only unique messages, but that works on Message-ID too!
Several weeks ago, someone on this list suggested "fdupes".
