Re: consoliate mail archives with duplicate messages

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

> Over the years, every time I have reinstalled Debian, I have saved the
> mail files.  Now I have a dozen or more files, with many duplicate
> messages.  
> 
> Is there an archiving utility or other reasonably simple approach
> whereby I can process these mail files to (1) considate them into a
> single file or archive and (2) eliminate duplicate messages?

I would unpack those files into a Maildir and if you then have
duplicate emails you can remove them with fdupes.

Regards
Johann

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