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+Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek@oracle.com> writes:\r
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+>> > I want to import bigger chunk of archived messages into my notmuch\r
+>> > database. It's about 100k messages. The problem is, that I most probably\r
+>> > have quite a lot of those messages in the DB. Basically I would like to\r
+>> > add only those I don't have already.\r
+>> >\r
+>> > There are two possibilities\r
+>> >\r
+>> > a) I will add all the 100k messages and then remove the duplicities.\r
+>> >\r
+>> > b) I will write a script which will parse the message ID's of the\r
+>> > to-be-added messages and try to match them to the notmuch DB. Adding\r
+>> > only files I can't find already.\r
+>> >\r
+>> > Ad b) might be better option, but I started to play with the idea of\r
+>> > deduplication. I'm thinking about listing all the message IDs stored in\r
+>> > DB, listing all files belonging to the IDs and deleting all but one.\r
+>> > Also I'm thinking about implementing some simple algorithm telling me\r
+>> > whether the messages are really very similar. Just to be sure I don't\r
+>> > delete something I don't want to.\r
+>> >\r
+>> > Was anyone playing with the idea?\r
+>> \r
+>> notsync[1] used the (lack of) existence of a message id in the store to\r
+>> decide whether to add something from an IMAP server, but it is old,\r
+>> crufty, unused and unloved code.\r
+>\r
+> I see, that's close to my b) solution, thanks!\r
+\r
+Did you mean a) here? The idea was to add them all first and then run\r
+this script to delete the duplicates.\r
+\r
+Best wishes\r
+\r
+Mark\r
+\r
+> -- \r
+> Vlad\r
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