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 _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
