Re: duplicate emails

[Mat Kovach <kovachme-linux@braindamage.alal.com>]

* lee_b@member.fsf.org [2004-05-19 10:25:00 +0100]:

> 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?

If you use procmail or maildrop as a mailfilter the both have recipies
to avoid duplicate messages.

If you are using an actualy Maildr (of qmail type) where each message
is an single file you could use something like md5 or such to compare
each message.

-- 
Mat Kovach
Cleveland, Ohio