I'm aware of this free-standing application: https://github.com/kdeldycke/mail-deduplicate
But I'm wondering if there is anything comparable built into Alpine itself.
Does Alpine contain functionality for de-duplicating a Maildir directory?
It sometimes happens that a single message gets saved more than once to
an archiving directory, and I'd like to know if there is already functionality for removing such duplicates.
On 17/12/2021 10.37, d...@brannerchinese.com wrote:
I'm aware of this free-standing application:
https://github.com/kdeldycke/mail-deduplicate
But I'm wondering if there is anything comparable built into Alpine
itself.
I think de-duplication is a file system feature, zfs has a such
functionality where it will just store one block with the same data and
then just point to that block. When you delete the last file pointing to
that block, then the block content is deleted too.
No, I Alpine don't have a function for deleting duplicate mails, you
should look at tools made for this, for example https://github.com/kdeldycke/mail-deduplicate
[...]
Thunderbird has an addon to do this. It searches a folder, and produces
a window listing duplicates (it displays several fields), offering to
delete them. I find it a useful function.
On 2021-12-21, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
[...]
Thunderbird has an addon to do this. It searches a folder, and
produces a window listing duplicates (it displays several fields),
offering to delete them. I find it a useful function.
Strange thing whis is! I never had (real) duplicates except intentional
ones.
The last part of the centence means that indeed it happenes that I save
one mail to another folder without deleting the "original".
Aside from this duplicates show up from sources which obvioulsy don't understand the task of a message ID and the necessity to avoid
duplicates or
which don't know how to generate unique identifiers.
Atlassian and Jira are an bad example of that...
Nonetheless they are no real duplicates in the sense that they are
identical in message ID as well as mail body.
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