On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:50 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:14, Jon Biddell wrote: > > > > > > > If I recall correctly, this was considered and not implemented-- it's > > > not clear that nearly-identical messages can be identified properly > > > without a lot of processing. > > > > Interesting - I wonder how the kmail guys do it - it seems to work pretty > > well, with only the rarest of false deletions - I had a mailbox with 16k > > messages (deliberately created to test it) which was a double-import of > > another mailbox - I *knew* there would be exactly 8192 duplicates, and kmail > > shot through the file in less than 30 seconds. > > If you want to be quick, you can just delete all but one copy of > anything with the same Message-id: header. > > If you want to be more thorough, you could additionally generate sha-1 > or md5 hashes of all messages as they come in, perhaps inserting them > into a heap.
this won't work because often mailing-lists munge headers and add their own signatures, etc. on the other hand, if you want this feature because you're double-importing mbox files every now and then, then it seems to me a better approach would be to write a script to do it. No sense having Evo do it then. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.novell.com
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