doveadm deduplicate commands

[Kevin Laurie]

Dear Jiri
Noted.
Thanks


On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Jiri Bourek <bourek at thinline.cz> wrote:

> On 13.2.2015 15:54, Kevin Laurie wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I just migrated my emails from gmail using getmail.
>> In the process I got some emails that have been doubled or tripled
>> How do I run the doveadm command to delete copies of same emails?
>>
>> I tried running the following:-
>> doveadm deduplicate -u user at domain.net inbox
>>
>> but I get error:-
>> doveadm(root): Fatal: Unknown argument INBOX
>>
>> Could someone share some way to automatically remove duplicated messages?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kevin
>>
>>
> See documentation - man doveadm-deduplicate and man doveadm-search-query
> should be enough. I'm guessing you're missing "MAILBOX" in the command.
>
> Also when using deduplicate on my servers, it usually doesn't remove every
> duplicate on first run and needs to be executed repeatedly. Not sure if
> it's Debian version's (2.2.13) bug or an upstream one. YMMV
>