Re: [Evolution] Check for duplicate messages

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Just remember that Message-id's are not guarenteed to be unique.

Jeff

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 14:06, Antonio Bemfica wrote:
> 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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