Re: duplicate emails

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Lee Braiden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting a lot of duplicate emails occasionally, as my ISP's POP3 
> server seems to drop connections a lot :/   I've tried both fetchmail 
> and getmail, with no luck.  Best I've managed is to limit the number of 
> mails retrieved in one run, as a sort of poor man's transaction :)
>
> So, two things:  any other way I can avoid this problem, and... are 
> there any programs that can scan a maildir (maybe recursively) and 
> delete dups?
>
> Thanks :)

procmail is your friend...

# remove duplicate emails
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 16384 msgid.cache