Re: [Evolution] [RFC - general discussion] GNOME standard email program should have "Remove Duplicates" feature by default...

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 21:02 -0400, Barry Smith wrote:
> Group:
>
> I have asked this question before, and researched this point until I
> am "smurfy" (iow, blue in the face).
> 1) Why did you remove "Remove Duplicate emails" from the e-plugins?
> 2) Is it active in Evo 3.0.2 (which I am trying to figure out how to
> install in Ubuntu)?

IT IS ACTIVE IN 3.0.2.  I see it. It works.

$ rpm -q evolution
evolution-3.0.2-1.2.x86_64

> It would seem important for Evo... a "mainstream" email application at

And evolution has it.

> least in the Linux/GNOME world... to leave the "Remove Duplicate
> emails" e-plugin available... just make it unactivated, but leave it a
> checkmark away. :)

Maybe it isn't a plugin anymore; but it does work.

> I am using Ubuntu as my OS, so I am stuck by default on Evo 2.32.2
> (which crashes regularly, and creates "bug-buddy" reports regularly
> which are apparently being ignored since Ubuntu won't move to a more
> current version of Evo).

Correct; Ubuntu chooses to use hacked and backward versions of packages.
That is nobody's problem except Ubuntu's.  No one else it to blame.