Re: [ILUG] Merging mbox files

From: Waider (waider at domain dspsrv.com)
Date: Wed 10 Apr 2002 - 09:29:39 IST


According to Niall O Broin:
> Thanks to sometimes using my laptop for mail and sometimes my deskunder and
> not being organised enough about what I do where, I now have mbox files on
> both machines which are substantially the same but do have some unique
> messsages. I'd like to merge them so that I have all emails in from each
> pair of mbox files but no duplicates. I think this should be doable by
> splitting up each mbox file into messages based on Message-ID, removing
> duplicates, and then merging into an mbox file again. Is there such a magic
> mail organising tool around ?

procmail/formail should be able to handle it for you, using procmail's
dedupe recipe and formail to split things into procmail.

Cheers,
Waider. And, of course, there's a manual for both :) [running, ducking]

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