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Re: duplicate messages



you dont cat your mbox

you simple


formail -s procmail < mbox






Words by David Kelly [Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:24:39PM -0500]:
> On Thursday 09 October 2003 09:31 pm, Allister MacLeod wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:26:12PM -0400, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> > > Is anyone aware of a script/tool that can elimate duplicate
> > > messages that already exist in a mailbox? If not, I'll try and
> > > write a bash script that makes use of the message ID.
> >
> > See also David Kelly's posting earlier in this thread, about using
> > procmail and formail.
> 
> As a means of experimenting with procmail recipes at times I have 
> created a maildir folder of my test messages. Then something like:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in $*
> do
>       cat $i | procmail test_procmailrc
> done
> 
> Or if mbox format do something like:
> 
> % cat mbox | formail -s "procmail test_procmailrc"
> 
> IIRC the quotes are needed to lump procmail's arguments for formail. 
> Notice that I'm overriding the default search path for a procmailrc 
> file as I don't want to mess with the one that is working and in 
> service when I'm experimenting. The experimental one sorts to a 
> different place, too.
> 
> -- 
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@xxxxxxxxxx
> =====================================================================
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