Re: [Evolution] Deleting duplicate emails

[HvR <hvrietsc myrealbox com>]

run md5sum on the mail message body and store the resulting string in a file then compare each message against this list in the file, if the md5sums of the message body are the same then the message is guaranteed to be the same.

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 07:46, 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!
>
> So I have two questions :
> - what about queue order ?
> - any idea for a workaround ?
>
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