RE: [Evolution] options on download

[Hassan Aurag <aurag DMS UMontreal CA>]

 Star Office does this already for pop accounts at least.
 If it is the exact same message, it won't fetch it.
 
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:16:35 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Sejal Patel <sejal iname com>
> cc: evolution helixcode com
> Subject: RE: [Evolution] options on download
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> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Tom Musgrove wrote:
>
> > Some sort of filtration so that duplicate messages (say those that are cc'd
> > to multiple lists that I'm on, or cc'd to me when I'm on the list...) are
> > automatically skipped/filtered?  I'm currently getting three copies of many
> > of these messages, and while it's not a major problem, it does add 5 seconds
> > for each additional message, which can add up... again as an option, not a
> > default <grin>.  I assume this would go under whatever evolutions filtering
> > policy is.  Could this be done by matching headers (since that seems like
>
> As much as I'd love to see something like this happen, I don't forsee it
> as being a very safe thing to do.  I can probably think of 3 different
> ways to totally screw up users that do use this feature and I'm sure that
> there are many people who can come up with more stuff.  It just isn't
> something that would be safe to do even if you did some kind of md5
> verification of the message headers and content.  After all, we don't want
> to allow unsafe code or else people will start mistaken us for micro$oft.
>
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