Re: Duplicate email

[Naveen Nathan <naveen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can connect to your mailbox with mutt quickly and tag & delete the
duplicates.

change to mailbox: imap://user:pass@host/mailbox
D ~=

This will delete duplicates.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 07:35:34AM -0300, Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle wrote:
> Hi there! I'm a new OfflineIMAP user and I need advice on how to get
> myself out of a situation.
> 
> Just after fetching all my mail, I found out Evolution expected the
> separator to be "/" and not ".". I thought I could get away with
> renaming folders like "INBOX.Trash" to "INBOX/Trash" and changing
> ~/.offlineimaprc accordingly, but it didn't work as expected (by me). On
> syncing with the remote IMAP server, the emails started to get
> duplicates, i. e., there are two of which in the IMAP server. Any
> suggestions on how to remove the duplicates?
> 
> The Web interface of the IMAP server doesn't have a "remove duplicates"
> command. Evolution kind of has a "remove duplicates" plugin, but it
> crashes if I ask it to ju7st go and remove all the duplicates, maybe
> because of the amount of email (tens of thounsands), maybe because right
> now my quota is > 90% full. For some reason, the "account" in Evolution
> looking at the local OfflineIMAP store doesn't see any duplicate. So,
> what is the best option? I could remove duplicates from the IMAP server
> with Evolution in small chunks, but that would take forever. I would
> really love if there were some way to fix my local repository so that
> Evolution would spot the duplicate mail and be able to remove it.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
>