Re: Does anyone know of a mailbox merging utility?
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:48:09AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:41:44PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> } I know it's a bit OT but does anyone know of a utility for merging
> } mbox type mailboxes? I want to merge two mailbox files in the sense
> } of adding them together and then deleting all duplicate messages.
> }
> } I have mbox1 and mbox2 where mbox2 will have some newer messages not
> } in mbox1 and mbox1 may have some older messages not in mbox2. I just
> } want to add the newer messages from mbox2 into mbox1.
> }
> } Don't say "use maildir", I have been using maildir but the
> } disadvantages outweigh the advantages for me. If I can do this merge
> } then mbox format is just so much more convenient, I don't have any
> } issues with locking problems, only I use the mbox files in question
> } and new mail doesn't get delivered to them.
>
> I don't know of a way of removing duplicates that is any easy than using
> mutt to see and delete duplicates, but combining the two mboxes is as
> simple as cat mbox2 >> mbox1.
>
Very true! I think there are duplicate removing utilities (formail?).
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)