doveadm deduplicate commands

[Kevin Laurie]

Dear Jiri,
Thanks for your feedback.
Does not work.
I guess its because of the usage of getmail. I had set it to read_all
= true  which downloaded all the messages several times.
Will purge the entire box and use getmail again to move all messages.
Thanks
Kevin

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Jiri Bourek <bourek at thinline.cz> wrote:
> On 13.2.2015 16:59, Kevin Laurie wrote:
>>
>> Dear Jiri,
>>
>> I tried the following to try to get the inbox deduplicated. My inbox is
>> quite large and urgently need to remove the duplicated messages.
>> Is there an easy way to do this?
>> Sorry for being so presistant but I need help.
>>
>> The command I tried:-
>>
>>   doveadm deduplicate -u user at domain.net mailbox inbox
>>
>
> I'd try this (in shell):
>
> doveadm search -u user at domain.net mailbox inbox | wc -l
>
> Doveadm will print mailbox-guid and uid pair for every message in inbox, one
> per line, pipe it into "wc -l", which will count the lines and output a
> number - that's the count of messages in INBOX.
>
> Then try doveadm deduplicate and after that the search command above again.
> If the count changed, deduplicate is working - you may only need to run it
> multiple times.
>
> If the count doesn't change, dovecot is unable to recognize duplicates in
> your mailbox and you need to find another solution. Maybe check out the "-m"
> option in man doveadm-deduplicate