Re: [Evolution] The Mail Bomb

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I'm running RedHat9 at work with Evolution, which I really like except
> for the small problem that every now and again (4-5 times in the last
> three months), I come back from the weekend and I have duplicate copies
> of ever single piece of mail I ever received. This is starting to add up
> to hundreds of megs of emails that I have to delete. I leave mail on the
> server normally and would prefer to continue to do so. Is this a known
> issue? Its like Evolution hickups and I get to spend the next twenty
> minutes clicking delete and expunge.

I have posted a script to eliminate duplicate messages (identified by
Message-Id) from your mail folders recently.

If you like, I will post it again...

...guenther


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char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}