Re: Duplicate email

["Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle" <leonardof@xxxxxxxxx>]

I set OfflineIMAP to store localy as maildir, not as imap... should it
work as well?


On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:59 +0000, "Naveen Nathan" <naveen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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!
> > 
> >