Duplicated mail

Duplicated mail

[Kamen TOMOV]

Hi,

I am using gnus and I have a problem with duplicated mail since I
configured my mail back-end (fetchmail) to keep the old mail on the
server. I restored the setting but it was too late. I already had
thousand of duplicated messages in my nnml groups. Is there a way to
delete them? Thanks.

Regards,
-- 
Kamen TOMOV

Re: Duplicated mail

[Glyn Millington]

Kamen TOMOV <kamen@cybuild.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am using gnus and I have a problem with duplicated mail since I
> configured my mail back-end (fetchmail) to keep the old mail on the
> server. I restored the setting but it was too late. I already had
> thousand of duplicated messages in my nnml groups. Is there a way to
> delete them? Thanks.
>
> Regards,

Hi Kamov

I think you already received the  basic answer to this on the other group
- gnu.emacs.gnus

ie

(setq nnmail-treat-duplicates 'delete)


See section 6.3.11 of the Gnus manual, which includes handy hints on how
to be rude to your girlfriend :-)

So I presume the problem is weeding out the  thousands of duplicates.

How do you split your mail?  


If you use Gnus splitting facilities (nnmail-split-fancy or
nnmail-split-methods) then I _think_ that simply marking all the messages
and then re-spooling (do B r) should eliminate the duplicates. (After
setting the above variable)

Notice the _think_ - I'm no expert!!

hth
Glyn