Re: [Evolution] remove duplicate emails

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > I think every email has an Message-ID.  Why not just delete duplicates
> > > by Message-ID?  I think also to mailing lists, the message id is the
> > > same.
> >
> > Yes, they will be the same when Replying to All. Anyway, Message-Id's
> > are not *guaranteed* to be unique. Although, granted, identical
> > Message-Id's for different mails are very rare. Yes, we had this
> > discussion pretty often in the past...
>
> Because we don't WANT a mailing list message that's also cc'ed directly
> to the recipients to be considered a duplicate mail.  This is the
> desired behavior on most linux development mailing lists like LKML where
> most recipients procmail the list mail into a separate folder, so you
> get messages CC'ed to you directly in your inbox, but the list folder
> preserves the threading.

Using the proper Mailing List Filters in Evo will result in the same
behavior. :)

> Personally I think we should just copy Mutt's implementation, I've never
> had it do the wrong thing.

Hmm, I don't know how exactly Mutt manages to do this, but...

Did you just say "volunteer"? ;-))

...guenther


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