Re: [Evolution] Duplicates removal

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> >  If not, can I propose such a feature?
[...]
> could probably be done, but it would be a painfully slow operation
> (comparing large bodies of text is just gonna be slow...)
>
> or maybe we could strip the mailing-list signature and md5sum it and
> cache that value...? even so, it seems like a lot of effort. when do we
> remove th md5sum from the cache? never? when the message it belongs to
> gets deleted? expunged? if never, that cache will get massive quickly
> for some of us... if you remove md5sums when their message gets deleted,
> this makes the backend significantly more complex :-(
[...]

Seems very reasonable over all.


> I suppose the easiest way to solve this would be to make it a menu item
> to run manually...

Well, that menu entry should run a formail script to not duplicate
already existing and specialized tools... ;)

...guenther


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