On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 14:21, guenther wrote:
> 
> > I try to keep archive folders with old emails.
> > 
> > My ISP recently restored every email since early 2000, and now I have
> > 40,000 duplicate emails.
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a way to filter duplicates in Evolution?  Or another
> > tool that will do it?
> 
> With a short procmail recipe you can filter incoming mails by the
> Message ID. It uses formail to do that.
> 
> You did not tell us, where the mails are (ISP, local?) and which
> protocol you use to access the mails (POP3, IMAP, local...). If you tell
> that, maybe I can come up with some solution.
> 
> I don't know of anything built in into Evo.
> 
> ...guenther

They are local, in Evolution.  I have imap and pop3 servers locally,
though.  I hope I won't have to do this again; I've set fetchmail to use
message IDs to prevent duplicates, now.

Thanks for your help; I look forward to hearing more.
-David
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