OT - Filter for Thunderbird

[Colin J. Raven]

On Dec 18, Chris launched this into the bitstream:

> Erich Dollansky wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Chris wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply
>>> please.
>>> 
>>> I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to
>>> flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this?
>>> 
>> I think the access to the other mails is missing.
>> 
>> The main problem will be the time it could take if people have a huge
>> archive with many, many different folders if Firefox keeps only one
>> index per folder.
>> 
>> Erich
>
> No - I think you totally missed the point. I have duplicate mails I would 
> love to create a filter to remove. Opposed to going through 1700 plus mails 
> and removing them by hand.
>
> If I failed to articulate that - then it's my fault.

I hope I'm understanding...you mean apply a filter to *existing* mail?? 
I'm not even sure it's possible in T/Bird.

For the future though.................

procmail is completely capable of doing what you require.

If you're using T/Bird (I'm guessing) you're probably also pop'ing mail 
directly from your provider or a.n.other account? For procmail to 
function efficiently you would need to install postfix or sendmail 
[shudder] and define procmail as your LDA. You would then get completely 
granular control over your incoming mai stream.

my $0.02.

Regards,
-Colin
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