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Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:24:08 -0800
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Utility to _merge_ mailbox files ? '

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Steven Levine wrote:

> It will work on blocks if it can detect them. It is required to support
> 3-way merges. However, I would expect better results from an app that
> understood the semantics of a mailbox file.

That is my concern; that if we used anything outside of the Mozilla
family the result would likely no longer be a mail file. I have seen
mail files that had messages that could be read with a text editor but
some did not show in the mail client.
>
> If there are not too many dups in the mailbox files, one can just
> concatenate them, reindex and delete the dups.

If you turn off threading and sort by date the dupes will usually jump
out at you.

And a small side issue; if you let a file collect a few thousand
messages, it may choke if you try to delete them all. Choke; work very
slow or even freeze.

Ray

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