Re: [Evolution] Check for duplicate messages



This is trivial to do using procmail (by checking the Message-ID
header). You can get a bit more sophisticated and do an MD5 hash of the
body of incoming messages and store it on a database (dbtool, for
example: http://www.daemon.de/dbtool/).

If you or anyone else is interested I can post a recipe that does the
above.

Antonio 


On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 13:32, Mertens Bram wrote: 

Hi,

This is probably impossible because it would take too much
time/resources so I won't file a feature-request unless this is
considered possible.

I would like to be able to define a filter that checks whether or not a
certain message already exists in a specific folder or even in any
folder.  The reason I think this would be useful is that I receive quite
a few duplicate messages, either some mailing-list robot is acting
'funny' or messages are sent to a list and CC'd to me or even when
somebody posts something twice (although that last one would probably be
quite tricky since both messages would have different time-stamps if I'm
not mistaken)

But I suppose this would require calculating some hash of all messages
and comparing them which would make it too slow and resource unfriendly
to be implemented.  On the other hand perhaps the developers or somebody
else on this list knows a way to do this more easily?! :) Just hoping
really.

comments and suggestions would be appreciated!





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