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📧 CLI to deduplicate mails from mail boxes.

Mail Deduplicate

Command-line tool to deduplicate mails from a set of boxes.

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Features

  • Duplicate detection based on cherry-picked and normalized mail headers.
  • Source and deduplicate mails from multiple sources.
  • Reads and writes to mbox, maildir, babyl, mh and mmdf formats.
  • Multiple duplicate selection strategies based on size, content, timestamp, file path or random choice.
  • Copy, move or delete the resulting set of mails after the deduplication.
  • Dry-run mode.
  • Protection against false-positives by checking for size and content differences.

Screenshots

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Installation

This package is available on PyPi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mail-deduplicate>_, so you can install the latest stable release and its dependencies with a simple pip call:

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$ pip install mail-deduplicate

Documentation

Docs are hosted on Read the Docs <https://mail-deduplicate.readthedocs.io>_.