On 2013-11-12 19:22:24 +0100, Jonas Petong wrote: > Today I accidentally copied my mails into the same folder where they had been > stored before (evil keybinding!!!) and now I'm faced with about a 1000 copies > within my inbox. Since those duplicates do not have a unique mail-id, it's > hopeless to filter them with mutts integrated duplicate limiting pattern. > Command '<limit>~=' has no effect in my case and deleting them by hand > will take me hours! > > I know this question has been (unsuccessfully) asked before. Anyhow is there > is > a way to tag every other mail (literally every nth mail of my inbox-folder) > and > afterwards delete them? I know something about linux-scripting but > unfortunately > I have no clue where to start with and even which script-language to use.
for every file:
read file and put the message-id in a dict in { message-id: [file1,
file2..fileN] } order
for each key in that dict:
delete all filename values except the first
It should not be very complicated to write. If nobody else comes up with
something, I can possibly it for you after work.
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