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Re: Does anyone know of a mailbox merging utility?



On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:59:45AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
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> formail -ds procmail -m temp.procmail.rc <mbox.merge.from#1.file
> formail -ds procmail -m temp.procmail.rc <mbox.merge.from#2.file

Just a side note: This may not always work 100%. I've had problems with
this approach in the past when merging old mailboxes where the local
copies of mails I had sent myself did not have message ids (and hence
could not be filtered that way. I ended up using a modified version of
the "eliminate-dups" script for qmail in conjunction with formail. That
seems to work sufficiently well, though also not quite 100%.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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