Re: [Evolution] remove duplicate emails

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 22:31 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > > > 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. :)

I know, that's what I do.  I am just saying that preferring Reply-To-All
vs. stripping CC's is a convention that varies from mailing list to
mailing list so we need to make sure any "remove dupes" implementation
doesn't just blithely remove dupes by message ID, but rather can tell
that two messages with identical bodies, one which came directly from
the sender and one from the list, are not dupes.

> > 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"? ;-))

No I don't have the bandwidth, I was just sugesting that there's already
an IMHO ideal implementation out there so whoever implements this
doesn't reinvent the wheel (poorly).

Lee