[ALUG] Re: Re: Removing duplicate mail messages

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:06:22PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:25:20PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:

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... er, yes, and having tagged the duplicate messages how does one delete all but one of them, automatically by script?

I think formail is a better answer! :-)

Oh sorry reading your original mail I was under the impression you had lots of mbox files you wanted to turn into 1 *big* mbox file and then remove the duplicates.

Well I do, but I want one of the set of duplicates left behind.

To do this (the quick and dirty way) I would cat all the mbox files into 1 *big* mbox file and then in mutt do a

T ~=

(to select all the duplicates)

and then a

;d

to delete the duplicates.

.... but didn't you want one of the duplicates left behind?