[Dovecot] Removing Duplicates

[Terry Barnum]

On Mar 14, 2010, at 4:21 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am starting fresh with a local repository of mails, which almost certainly have duplicates in them.  I am going to use maildirs, and ensure all mails are input with CRLFs.
> 
> The question is: does anybody know how I can find and remove duplicates, either while injecting mail with IMAP, or afterward?  I can use tools to find duplicate Message-IDs, but don't know of a way to remove duplicates in mailboxes that are already imported as opposed to incoming mail.  Perhaps there is a way to use the IMAP protocol for this?

<http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync>

It will skip duplicates during transfer.

-Terry