Re: Deleting Duplicates
* Mike Loiterman <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [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".