mail-deduplicate

What is Mail Deduplicate?

Provides the mdedup CLI, an utility to deduplicate mails from a set of boxes.

Features

• Duplicate detection based on cherry-picked and normalized mail headers.
• Fetch mails from multiple sources.
• Reads and writes to mbox, maildir, babyl, mh and mmdf formats.
• Deduplication strategies based on size, content, timestamp, file path or random choice.
• Copy, move or delete the resulting set of duplicates.
• Dry-run mode.
• Protection against false-positives with safety checks on size and content differences.
• Supports macOS, Linux and Windows.
• Shell auto-completion for Bash, Zsh and Fish.

Example

Quickstart

Easiest way is to install mdedup with pipx:

$ pipx install mail-deduplicate

Other alternatives installation methods are available in the documentation.