Re: Advice on email backup

2023-03-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:37:27PM +0100, H wrote: I have never used mutt - do I install it on one of my workstations and then access theĀ  mail backup directory on the server over whatever suitable connection? via imap. possible, but i wouldn't do that. Or, do I install it on my server and r

Re: Advice on email backup

2023-03-14 Thread Evgeniy Berdnikov
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 consoli

Re: Advice on email backup

2023-03-14 Thread H
On 03/14/2023 08:13 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 07:35:18PM +0100, H wrote: >> which Linux email client would you suggest to prune the consolidate email >> directories? >> > use mutt, then the de-duplication business boils down to typing 'D~=' in each > folder (this doe

Re: Advice on email backup

2023-03-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 07:35:18PM +0100, H wrote: which Linux email client would you suggest to prune the consolidate email directories? use mutt, then the de-duplication business boils down to typing 'D~=' in each folder (this does message-id based de-duplication, but that should be good en

Advice on email backup

2023-03-14 Thread H
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 bac