> Occasionally I find that Evolution will hang when trying to download > email from one of my POP mail accounts. This usually results in my > having to kill and restart Evolution. Unfortunately this often > results in Evolution re-downloading my entire POP mailbox rather than > just downloading those messages that haven't been retrieved. I keep > my messages on the POP server for awhile, so when this happens > Evolution will often re-download 2000 messages or more(however many > happen to be in the mailbox at the time).. Is there a way to prevent > this from happening? Short of that, is there a way to prune my mail > folders from within Evolution to remove duplicate (or triplicate) > mails?
Back in April I wrote a custom script to remove duplicate emails in mbox folders and posted it on this list. See my post (the script and instructions/warnings) on the archives: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2003-April/028416.html I tested that script in a very small environment. It did work for me. You really should backup all your data before, though! I never got a response back. But I will be glad if it may be useful for you. Another warning: This script will fail, if you have whitespace in your folder names! Simon McClenahan found my script on the archives and mentioned that. Thanks to him. He corrected the script: --- dedupe.sh --- #!/bin/sh [ -e dedupe.mbox ] && echo 'panic: dedupe.mbox exists, exiting' && exit cat "$1" | formail -D 8192 .msgid -s >> dedupe.mbox mv -f dedupe.mbox "$1" --- snipp --- Then the command to execute would be: % find . -name 'mbox' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 ./dedupe.sh Use this, if you use whitespace. Looks good -- however, I did not test this particular script. Anyway, be warned and again: back up your data! And drop a note, if it was helpful... ;-) ...guenther -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; 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; }}} _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
