Re: [Evolution] Check for duplicate messages

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

fwiw this is already in the bug system (from about 2 years ago at
least).

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 03:02, Mertens Bram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably impossible because it would take too much
> time/resources so I won't file a feature-request unless this is
> considered possible.
>
> I would like to be able to define a filter that checks whether or not a
> certain message already exists in a specific folder or even in any
> folder.  The reason I think this would be useful is that I receive quite
> a few duplicate messages, either some mailing-list robot is acting
> 'funny' or messages are sent to a list and CC'd to me or even when
> somebody posts something twice (although that last one would probably be
> quite tricky since both messages would have different time-stamps if I'm
> not mistaken)
>
> But I suppose this would require calculating some hash of all messages
> and comparing them which would make it too slow and resource unfriendly
> to be implemented.  On the other hand perhaps the developers or somebody
> else on this list knows a way to do this more easily?! :) Just hoping
> really.
>
> comments and suggestions would be appreciated!
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