On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 22:10 +0800, Wouter van Marle wrote: > I've a rather peculiar issue. I have a rather large archive of e-mails > in the cyrus imap format. But due to copy errors while migrating to the > cyrus server, I now have ended up with many many duplicate e-mails. And > I'd like to take these out. > > These duplicates are the same down to the message-ID. > > Does there exist a built-in tool or so to clean a cyrus mailbox and all > it's children from duplicates? I haven't tried it, but there was a script posted to this list a few years ago: http://www.irbs.net/internet/info-cyrus/0311/0147.html > Alternatively I think I can relatively easy hack a script together that > checks for dupes, and deletes the affected messages. Is it a good idea > to start working on cyrus' mail store directly? (of course I have a > backup - but will the server accept this?). It seems to me the mails are > stored in single plain-text files, so using normal string functions I > can easily grab the messageID and remove any duplicates. you have to run reconstruct afterwards, and probably quota -f too, but Cyrus will handle it nicely. -- Kjetil T. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
