Phasor Burn

Warning: Do not look into phasor with remaining eye.

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Yet another collection of random links and rantings of a greying unix geek with a photography bent. Pass the Guinness and Grecian Formula.

I’ve somehow gotten a mailbox full of duplicate items and have been trying to find some automated way of cleaning it up.

Things that did not work, probably because I have approx 50,000 messages in the messed up folder and I blew their little minds (stacks) . . .

Mail Scripts for Apple Mail
MAPI Labs OutLook plugin for Deduplication

What appears to be working is delIMAPdups.pl.

Yeah, its perl. I hates perl almost as much as I hates Elves.

However, if a perl thing works and I do not need to edit or maintain the code, I’ll use it on a one-off basis.

$ ./delIMAPdups.pl -S mymailserver/myaccount/mypassword -m Inbox.ScrewyFolder -M Inbox.Trash -d

So far it has found 10,000 dupes in my 50,000 item archive. 

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