Re: [Evolution] Deleting duplicate emails

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > If the md5sum hashes are different, the messages are guaranteed to be
> > different. If the hashes are the same, there is always a slight
> > probability, that the messages are *NOT* the same.
>
> true one in a multi billion chance.. so i will take my chances, after
> all the chance of getting a bit error on my hard disk are bigger then
> that, your solution with formail is much easier on the cpu, but the
> probability of email systems generating the same message-id header 
> are much much larger then a md5sum clash... ;-)

Doh -- I missed that point. Sure, you're right there...

...guenther


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