Re: isync duplicated some, but not all messages when moving computers

[Mathieu A. <ma...@ma...>]

Le Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 10:37:43PM +0100, Bence Ferdinandy a écrit :
> 
> On Wed Dec 18, 2024 at 21:29, Oswald Buddenhagen via isync-devel <isy...@li...> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 02:33:51PM +0100, Bence Ferdinandy wrote:
> >>it was probably not the best idea, but I moved computers, by coping all
> >>my
> >>maildir and isync config, but not the isync state (in retrospect, I probably
> >>should have done that).
> >>
> > yeah ...
> >
> >>I ran isync (1.5.0) and some emails got duplicated, but
> >>not everything and more heavily in Archive folders. Is this the
> >>expected behaviour?
> >>
> > no. i expect that there is some confounding factor.
> > maybe misleading sort order?
> > or some messages were never pushed up because of reasons?
> 
> There were probably messages never pulled, but who knows. Anyway, I'm now
> professional in mail de-duplication.

A while back, I collected all my various imap tools written in various
languages over the years into a single tool, and it does deduplication
removal, amongst other things:
https://crates.io/crates/imap-tools
https://gitlab.com/mat813/imap-tools-rs

Though you'll need "cargo" to install it.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold