duplicate suppression and syncronizing?

[David Carter]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Bill Kearney wrote:

> Somewhat tangentally, is there a way to use sieve or something else 
> within cyrus to investigate duplicates in a given folder?  I do know 
> some mail is duplicated.  Thunderbird has an extension available to dig 
> through the messages to find duplicates.  But is there something clever 
> within sieve that can do it?

Each message delivery or sieve action (fileinto, redirect etc) causes a 
duplicate_check() to see if the combination of Message-ID plus action plus 
(mailbox name or redirect address) has been seen before, followed by a 
duplicate_mark() if it is new. This isn't visible to the end user.

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