Re: [Evolution] remove duplicate emails

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 09:32 -0500, Graham Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 12:40 +0100, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > Duplicate Emails are a result of multiple (accidently) downloading an
> > email from a pop server, (inaccidently) if someone sends the mail to two
> > or more addresses from my own which will be collected into one folder,
> > or if someone presses 'apply to all' when answering to one of my mailing
> > list posts.
> > 
> > How can I get rid of this duplicate messages?
> > 
> Note that there is an ambiguity in how you define duplicate messages.
> Multiple downloading from pop server results in true duplicates, but the
> "reply to all" generally does not (the headers will have minor
> differences). 
> 
> Here is a perl script for removing duplicates (defined in yet a third
> way).

Perl scripts are all well and good but I thinh the original poster was
asking why there isn't a way inside Evolution to do this.  Mutt can do
it.

If you use Evo over dialup or other unreliable connection then multiple
downloading from the POP server is a real problem, often if Evo is
interrupted or hangs diring download and has to be killed it will just
download all the messages again.

Lee