On 13.Nov 2013, 00:48, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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 ;-)
me too, but I thought that was kind of a waste of time if there was a
possibility to solve this with a script automatically. Or even better within
mutt itself. By the way I'm a bit worried about my 'j' key ;-)
>
> 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"
looks pretty much like mine.
> If you aren't a reckless person, turn off incoming mail and backup
> the directory or mbox before you try *any* solution.
thank you for that one, I mean it! Wouldn't be the first time trying to restore
old folders from my external backup drive. Just stored a copy of my ~/Mails :-)
>
> ĸen
> --
> das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce
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