mail-deduplicate 3.0.0

Deduplicate mails from mbox files and maildir folders.

Command-line tool to deduplicate mails from a set of mbox files and/or maildir folders.

Stable release:

Development:

Features

• Duplicate detection based on cherry-picked mail headers.

• Source mails from multiple mbox files and/or maildir folders.

• Multiple removal strategies based on size, timestamp or file path.

• Dry-run mode.

• Protection against false-positives by checking for size and content differences.

Installation

This package is available on PyPi, so you can install the latest stable release and its dependencies with a simple pip call:

$ pip install mail-deduplicate

Documentation

Docs are hosted on Read the Docs.

Changes for v3.0.0 (2020-09-03)

!DANGER!

As of v3.0.0, the project has been renamed to Mail Deduplicate and is now available on:

• Github at https://github.com/kdeldycke/mail-deduplicate

• PyPi at https://pypi.org/project/mail-deduplicate

Note

This version is not yet released and is under active development.

• Rename project from maildir-deduplicate to mail-deduplicate.

• Rename master branch to main.

• Add support for mboxes. Closes #48.

• Remove requirement on -s/--strategy parameter, to let mails being grouped into duplicate sets without any removal action, effectively acting as a second-level dry-run.

Full changelog.