David Gessel
Cleaning Out Duplicate IMAP messages
There are a number of ways to end up with a lot of duplicate messages in an IMAP folder, and while IMAP tends to handle very large stores gracefully, it is possible to hose things. On my 32 bit server and with Mulberry as a client things get weird after about 15,000 messages in a single folder.
Google does some odd things and at one point a periodic check of my gMail account resulted in about 70,000 messages in a single folder, which definitely caused some chaos.
I thought that was pretty impressive, but my girlfriend just managed to get 144,000 messages in a single folder. Woo Hoo!!! High Score.
Anyway, things like the dedup plugins for Thunderbird can just make things worse at that point as they seem to fail gracelessly on very large message counts.
I found that Rick Sander’s perl scripts are the best way out of this difficult situation. delIMAPdups.pl solves the problem without running out of memory or munging files. I haven’t had any lost data and just tested by clearing about 1400 dups out of a directory of 15,000 messages (my 2009 store to date).
/.delIMAPdups.pl -S example.com:993/user/pass -m INBOX.2009 -p
-m is the mailbox to expunge
-p is purge
-S means use SSL
possum eat’n cat fud
Oh Hai, This my cat fud bag. Get ur own.
A week of tweets: 2009-10-11
- Man arrested for twittering. Not in iran. #
- In boston for a few hours… Sunny. #
- It is fall in new england, what with the colors and all. #
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Rental Saturn Aura
My last rental Saturn?
A week of tweets: 2009-10-04
- Is obama coming to ORD to poromote the olympic bid? In concourse C? http://twitpic.com/jjbdj #
- Acceleration slidewalk is open at yyz!!! http://twitpic.com/jjwlu #
- Waiting at Hz YYZ. Forgot to hit submit last night at 3:00am. + Hz mobile site good. Submit 3 steps to counter, reservation in db at counter #
- Heading to PHL tonight. #
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A week of tweets: 2009-09-27
- Just had an excellent dinner at roosevelt tamale #
- LA flight leaves from mysterious and remote “G92” at SFO. DOH! Next time I will use international RCC. #
- near 34.10586, -118.341658 http://tinyurl.com/y8h4znp dinner at yamashiro. Yum! #
- Pleasant, productive stay in LA, back home for a day or two. #
- near 37.7714, -122.423816 http://tinyurl.com/ydkoek4 Waiting for It’s Tops to open with @phragments http://twitpic.com/jb7bt #
- Very sad, no It’s Tops: Bruce didn’t make it to work. Hope he is OK. #
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Cadillac Escalade
It is nice Hz upgrades my rental, but this is just stupid.
A week of tweets: 2009-09-20
- near 43.641324, -79.374603 http://tinyurl.com/ojpefm brunch at Toula’ with @phragments http://twitpic.com/hm52v #
- #TIFF The Loved Ones: holy shit amazing “then you’ve got Lola, who’s hot pink and super fucked up” -Victoria Thane http://twitpic.com/horr8 #
- #TIFF Bitch Slap: beautiful, well endowed, strong women killing men and fighting each other by Zoe Bell. Excellent. http://twitpic.com/hswcq #
- #TIFF Google Baby: not so much about Google… A documentary about baby outsourcing: Israeli sperm, US embryos, and Indian Uteri. #
- #TIFF La Pivellina: sweet circus folk find an adorable child and while circmstances are difficult, everyone falls in love. #
- Whip It best of #TIFF. Laugh, cry. Take a little girl, your own or one off the street. It rocks. Drew wins. Go Zoe Bell! Yay Julliet Lewis! #
- #TIFF Hipsters: Really fun, dynamic film about hipster rebels in 1950’s Moscow. Great music. Evgeniya Khirivskaya is gorgeous. #
- near 43.66602, -79.383919 http://tinyurl.com/lf9e3y Bar Volo: best draft selection in T.O. http://www.barvolo.com/ #
- As @phragments said, jeebus freaks made lunch hell. http://twitpic.com/ickmj #
- YYZ to SFO, thinking about finishing up two weeks of festival movies by going to the 10:20 District 9 show at the metrion, then It’s Tops. #
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