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Re: consoliate mail archives with duplicate messages



Russell L. Harris:
> 
> 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.  

Mbox files?

> 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?

If you have mbox files, you could just `cat` them into one file, open it
with mutt and then press 'D' followed '~=<CR>'.

J.
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