Re: [Evolution] Deleting duplicate emails

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:46, Vincent Birebent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In some folder, for some reasons I have duplicate mails (same mail, two
> or three times).
>
> I thought about using filters to delete them : I pipe all mails from
> this folder to a perl script which :
> - save the last piped mail in a txt file,
> - compare it with the last save
> - exit 1 or 0 according to it...
>
> It doesn't work, because mails are not queued in date order!

I dunno, does sorting by date/not sorting make any difference?

> So I have two questions :
> - what about queue order ?
> - any idea for a workaround ?

To do it properly you'd probably want to have a database (i.e. file)
kept of message-hashes or message-id's of messages you've seen before,
and use that as the test, rather than just keeping track of the last
message.