On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 07:22:24PM +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.
>
> This close-to-topic approach with 'fdupes' has been released some time ago
> (http://consolematt.wordpress.com/tag/fdupes/) but in my view it seems way to
> complicated. As I could recognize from mutts mailing archive, I'm not the only
> one who has had trouble with it. Therefore I appreciate any hint which drives
> me
> into the right direction and helps me solving this.
>
> Running Mutt 1.5.21 under Ubuntu Gnome 13.10. (Linux 3.11.0-13-generic).
>
I don't have a script, but I usually view lists without threading,
using date/time sent in sender's timezone (%d) - I'm sure that using
the local time zone (%D) probably works the same way. On occasion I've
had to change which of my upstreams was subscribed to heavy-traffic
lists such as lkml, and at other times I've occasionally had mails
appearing twice after upstream problems. When needed, it's just a
case of looking at the index and deleting every other mail.
Tedious, but achievable - particularly for only 1000 mails - I've
done more than that in the past ;-)
And after marking a batch to be deleted, I can look at which are
marked (just in case I had finger trouble) and specify the message
number to go to and undelete.
I believe the order in which I see mails is governed by
index_format [ I haven't looked at this stuff in ages - why break
what works for me ]. Mine is:
set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s"
If you aren't a reckless person, turn off incoming mail and backup
the directory or mbox before you try *any* solution.
ĸen
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