Re: [Evolution] Duplicate Messages

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

Actually, I think there _IS_ a safe way to do this. If you look at the
procmail rule, it keeps a small (16kb) cache of msg-id's (the most
recent ones). When it is full, the old ones go, and the new ones come
in. 

What usually happens when somebody sends me email is that they mail me,
and CC a mailing list or two. This has the same msg-id. The first mail
that arrives will enter the msg-id cache, and then the next message will
find it's msg-id in the cache and be deleted. The msg-id then disappears
from the cache after a short while (when another 16kb of msg-id's gets
accumulated (this happens very quickyl since I get ~100 mails a day)).

Anyway, as a 'safety' precuation, you'll notice that the duplicate mails
go into a duplicate folder (just in case there is a fluke, and we get
two DIFFERENT msg's with the same msg-id in the same day).

Regards,
Ali

On 23 Dec 2000 12:11:35 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> This type of thing has been discussed, but there's no "safe" way of doing
> this.
>
> You can't depend on the fact that a message-id is unique, and because of
> that your rule may delete mails that you didn't actually want to delete. We
> thought about using MD5 checksums, but that isn't a good solution either
> since mailing lists add their own headers, that will change the md5
> checksum.
>
> Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ali Abdin" <aliabdin aucegypt edu>
> To: <evolution helixcode com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 10:49 AM
> Subject: [Evolution] Duplicate Messages
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > nice work on evolution - I'm using it as my primary mailer now.
> >
> > One of the annoying behaviors that I've found though is that messages
> > with CC's to several mailing lists go into each folder. I would like to
> > get rid of these "duplicate" messages. This is taken care of by the
> > following procmail rule:
> >
> > :0 Whc: msgid.lock
> > | formail -D 16384 msgid.cache
> >
> > :0 a:
> > duplicates
> >
> > Unfortunately, nothing like this seems to be present in evolution which
> > is slightly annoying.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ali
> >
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