Re: [Evolution] Looking for a Plugin to delete duplicate mails!

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

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> I am using Evolution v. 1.2.2-5, on RH 9. I have a small bandwidth cable
> connection that often chokes and emails are sometimes downloaded
> multiple times. It is a pain in the neck, especially in the case of
> mailing lists.
>
> Does anyone know of an evolution plugin that can delete the duplicate
> (one or more copies of them) mails using the unique message id. If not,
> what do I need to do to achieve this?

There is no such thing.

BTW: Evolution 1.2.x is pretty old (like years). Evolution 1.4.6 is the
current stable version [1], and Ximian provides RPM packages for RH9,
IIRC. There is a specific POP3 feature (see settings) in this version,
which might cure your problems. I may be wrong, though, and it will have
no effect in this particular case.


Apart from that there are other possibilities to delete duplicate mails
not bound to Evolution. 'formail' for example can be used to delete
duplicates (based on Message-ID headers, which are not guaranteed to be
unique).

I posted a solution (working, with some caveats) a couple of months ago
to this list. If you are interested in that (command line only) script,
I can search for it and post the links again.

...guenther


[1] FYI: Evolution 2.0 will be released pretty soon.


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