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Re: Advice on email backup
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From: Evgeniy B. <bi...@pr...> - 2023-03-14 19:38:19
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 07:35:18PM +0100, H wrote: > I am trying to consolidate multiple backups I have of several of my email accounts. The backups have all been made using isync but to different computers, thus different hostnames, and during different time periods. > > In order to consolidate this mess and clear out duplicates of emails I have backed up I am thinking of the following: > > - Move all emails into one and the same directory structure on a new machine, ie matching email addresses and the cur/new/tmp structure when copying to this new machine. > > - With this consolidate email directory in place, use md5sum to find duplicates. This plan is expected to fail. Read, for example: https://edd.salkield.uk/blog/2022/11/09/deduplicating_your_mbsync_maildir.html [...] > Does the above make sense? If so, which Linux email client would you suggest to prune the consolidate email directories? Mutt may be used, and for deduplication too: https://41j.com/blog/2011/09/delete-duplicate-emails-in-mutt/ -- Eugene Berdnikov |
